Differences in human antagonistic ankle dorsiflexor coactivation between legs; can they explain the moment deficit in the weaker plantarflexor leg?

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 843-855

  Maganaris, Constantinos N ^a   Baltzopoulos, Vasilios ^a   Sargeant, Antony J ^a,b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0031766564     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1998.sp004164     Document Type: Article

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