The use of fractional parameter in analyzing motor unit discharge pattern in stroke patients: A correlation with the Functional Independence Measurement

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-9

  Yan, K ^a,b   Fang, J ^a   Turan, B ^c   Chira Adisai, W ^d   Shahani, B T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Functional Independent Measurements; Single motor unit discharge behavior; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FINGERS; HAND; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARESIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THUMB; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033968398     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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