Effect of head position on postural orientation and equilibrium

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-184

  Barberini, Crista L ^a,b   Macpherson, Jane M ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Cat; Neck proprioception; Sensorimotor transformation; Vestibular system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCE; FORELIMB; HEAD POSITION; HINDLIMB; JOINT; MALE; NECK; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROTATION; SCAPULA; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDING; TORQUE; TRUNK; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; JOINTS; KINETICS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; POSTURE;

EID: 0031708885     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050505     Document Type: Article

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