Older adults use a unique strategy to lift inertial loads with the elbow flexor muscles

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2030-2039

  Graves, Andrew E ^a   Kornatz, Kurt W ^a   Enoka, Roger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0034087150     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.4.2030     Document Type: Article

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