Intrinsic and reflex stiffness in normal and spastic, spinal cord injured subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 446-459

  Mirbagheri, M M ^a   Barbeau, H ^a   Ladouceur, M ^a   Kearney, R E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ankle stiffness; Human; Muscle tone; Spastic hypertonia; Spinal cord injury; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TORQUE; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TORQUE;

EID: 0035214129     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-001-0901-z     Document Type: Article

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