Identification of static and dynamic components of reflex sensitivity in spastic elbow flexors using a muscle activation model

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 330-339

  Schmit, Brian D ^a,b   Rymer, W Zev ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLES; SPASTICITY; STRETCH REFLEX; STROKE;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN INJURY; ELBOW; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPASTICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN INJURIES; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARESIS; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 0034744001     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1359496     Document Type: Article

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