Muscle spindle activity in the affected upper limb after a unilateral stroke

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2079-2088

  Wilson, L R ^a   Gandevia, S C ^a,b   Inglis, J T ^a   Gracies, J M ^a   Burke, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fusimotor drive; Hemiparesis; Muscle spindle afferent; Spasticity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GAMMA NERVE FIBER; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; REFLEX; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN STIMULATION; STROKE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGED; ARM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPINDLES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX;

EID: 0032730367     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.11.2079     Document Type: Article

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