Directional sensitivity of stretch reflexes and balance corrections for normal subjects in the roll and pitch planes

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-113

  Carpenter, Mark G ^a   Allum, John H J ^b   Honegger, Flurin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balance corrections; Directional sensitivity; Posturography; Proprioception; Stretch reflexes; Torque strategies; Vestibulospinal input

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; ROTATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STABILOGRAPHY; STANDING; TORQUE; TRUNK; VELOCITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, STRETCH; ROTATION; TORQUE;

EID: 0032747320     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050940     Document Type: Article

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