The influence of eccentric contractions and stretch on alpha motoneuron excitability in normal subjects and subjects with spasticity.

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 171-177

  Rochester, L ^a   Vujnovich, A ^a   Newstead, D ^a   Williams, M ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPASTICITY; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY;

EID: 0035011726     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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