Attenuation of human neck muscle activity following repeated imposed trunk-forward linear acceleration

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 458-464

  Blouin, Jean Sébastien ^a   Descarreaux, Martin ^a   Bélanger Gravel, Ariane ^a   Simoneau, Martin ^a   Teasdale, Normand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expectation; Feedforward and feedback control strategies; Neck EMG; Seated postural perturbation; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 0038389792     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1466-9     Document Type: Article

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