Blood flow response to electrically induced twitch and tetanic lower-limb muscle contractions

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 982-987

  Janssen, Thomas W ^a,b   Hopman, Maria T ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Rehabilitation Center Amsterdam and Centrum voor Orthopedietechniek   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood flow velocity; Electric stimulation; Muscle contraction; Physical therapy techniques; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TETANIC SPASM; UNIVERSITY; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0037817676     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(03)00037-6     Document Type: Article

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