Motor unit discharge characteristics during voluntary contraction in patients with incomplete spinal cord injury

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1151-1160

  Smith, Hazel C ^a   Davey, Nick J ^a   Savic, Gordana ^b   Maskill, David W ^a   Ellaway, Peter H ^a   Frankel, Hans L ^b  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE;

EID: 0032714205     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-445X.1999.01934.x     Document Type: Article

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