Muscular responses and movement strategies during stumbling over obstacles

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2093-2102

  Schillings, A M ^a,b   Van Wezel, B M H ^a   Mulder, Th ^b,c   Duysens, J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SINT MAARTENSKLINIEK   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE FUNCTION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE REFLEX; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; STANDING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0034041834     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.4.2093     Document Type: Article

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