Rapid neck muscle adaptation alters the head kinematics of aware and unaware subjects undergoing multiple whiplash-like perturbations

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 473-482

  Siegmund, Gunter P ^a,b   Sanderson, David J ^a   Myers, Barry S ^c   Inglis, J Timothy ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MacInnis Engineering Associates   (Canada)

^c Duke University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awareness; Habituation; Neck muscle; Reflex; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

WHIPLASH INJURY;

BIOMECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AWARENESS; BACK MUSCLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; HABITUATION; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NECK MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUNK; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 0037397164     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(02)00458-X     Document Type: Article

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