Selective activation and graded recruitment of functional muscle groups through spinal cord stimulation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 860, Issue , 1998, Pages 531-535

  Mushahwar, V K ^a,c   Horch, K W ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; KNEE; LOCOMOTION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

EID: 0032413004     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09096.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. 1. Mushahwar, V. K. & K. W. Horch. 1993. Selective activation of functional muscle groups through stimulation of spinal motor pools. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference of the IEEE - EMBS: 1196-1197.
2. 2. Mushahwar, V. K. 1996. Feasibility of spinal cord stimulation for control of lower extremities in paraplegia. Ph.D. thesis. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
3. 3. Mushahwar, V. K. & K. W. Horch. 1997. Proposed specifications for a lumbar spinal cord electrode array for control of lower extremities in paraplegia. IEEE Trans. Rehabil. Eng. 5: 237-243.
4. 4. Mushahwar, V. K. & K. W. Horch. 1996. Electrical stimulation of the ventral lumbo-sacral spinal cord results in mixed recruitment order of quadriceps and tibialis anterior motor units. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE - EMBS: 1142-1143.