Effects of leg muscle tendon vibration on group Ia and group II reflex responses to stance perturbation in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 550, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 617-630

  Bove, Marco ^a   Nardone, Antonio ^b   Schieppati, Marco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Scientific Institute of Veruno   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNEURON; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL NERVE; STANDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENDON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TOE; VIBRATION; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 2; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LATENT PERIOD; MEDIUM LATENCY RESPONSE; SHORT LATENCY RESPONSE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; REFLEX, STRETCH; ROTATION; TENDONS; TOES; VIBRATION;

EID: 0038793494     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.043331     Document Type: Review

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