Evaluation of triceps surae muscle length and resistance to passive lengthening in patients with acquired brain injury

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 152-161

  Singer, B ^a   Dunne, J ^b   Singer, K P ^a   Allison, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acquired brain injury; Dynamometry; Hypertonia; Passive plantarflexor resistive torque; Soleus muscle extensibility

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

TRICEPS;

BRAIN;

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TENDON; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 0036148820     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(01)00116-4     Document Type: Article

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