Quantification of cocontraction in spastic cerebral palsy

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 497-504

  Ikeda, A J ^b   Abel, M F ^c   Granata, K P ^c   Damiano, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031760182     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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