Hand contact area, force applied and early non-linear stiffness (toe) in a manual stiffness discrimination task

Manual Therapy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 212-219

  Nicholson, L L ^a   Maher, C ^a   Adams, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELASTICITY; FORCE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PALPATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

EID: 0031742293     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1356-689X(98)80050-7     Document Type: Article

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