Interactions between vestibular and proprioceptive inputs triggering and modulating human balance-correcting responses differ across muscles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 478-494

  Allum, J H J ^a   Honegger, F ^a  

^a HNO Universitatsklinik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balance control; Human; Peripheral vestibular loss; Proprioceptive reflexes; Vestibulospinal reflexes; Visual modulation of postural responses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE GROWTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SENSORY SYSTEM; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; TRUNK; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NECK MUSCLES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPINAL CORD; VESTIBULE;

EID: 0031873603     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050484     Document Type: Article

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