Recruitment of spinal motor pools during voluntary movements versus stepping after human spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1217-1229

  Maegele, M ^a   Muller S ^b   Wernig, A ^a   Edgerton, V R ^c,d   Harkema, Susan J ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Karlsbad Langensteinbach   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Physiological Sciences ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coactivation; Laufband therapy; Locomotion; Locomotor training; Motor recruitment; Proprioception; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; LAUFBAND THERAPY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT THERAPY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TREADMILL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VOLITION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0036797816     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/08977150260338010     Document Type: Article

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