Movements modulate the reflex responses of human flexor pollicis longus to stretch

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 105-110

  Wallace, Christopher J ^a   Miles, Timothy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gating; Hand muscles; Human; Motor control; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; THUMB; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 0031973473     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050259     Document Type: Article

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