The effects of skin brushing on H reflex amplitude in normal human subjects

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-183

  Wood, Leslie ^a   Nicol, D Joyce ^a   Thulin, Christina E S ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Physiotherapy   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPATHY; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN STIMULATION; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

EID: 0031893723     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1998.sp004100     Document Type: Article

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