Experimental muscle pain increases the human stretch reflex

Pain

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 331-339

  Matre, Dagfinn A ^a   Sinkjær, Thomas ^a   Svensson, Peter ^a,b   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Experimental muscle pain; H reflex; Hypertonic saline; Sensory motor interaction; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MYALGIA; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MALE; MUSCLES; PAIN; REFLEX, STRETCH; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TORQUE;

EID: 0031922697     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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