Forearm postural control during unloading: Anticipatory changes in elbow stiffness

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-117

  Biryukova, E V ^a   Roschin, V Y ^a   Frolov, A A ^a   Ioffe, M E ^a   Massion, J ^b   Dufosse, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Bimanual unloading; Equilibrium angle; Invariant characteristics; Joint stiffness; Posture maintenance

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CONTROL SYSTEM; ELBOW; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT STIFFNESS; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TORQUE; VISCOSITY; WEIGHT BEARING;

COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELBOW JOINT; FOREARM; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLEX, STRETCH; TORQUE; VISCOSITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0033039214     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050605     Document Type: Article

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