What functions do reflexes serve during human locomotion?

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 185-205

  Zehr, E Paul ^a,b   Stein, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CYCLING; GAIT; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SITTING; SKIN NERVE; STANDING; WALKING;

EID: 0032911374     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(98)00081-1     Document Type: Review

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