Flexor bias of joint position in humans during spaceflight

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-94

  McCall, G E ^a   Goulet, C ^a   Boorman, G I ^a   Roy, R R ^a   Edgerton, V R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microgravity; Motor control; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELBOW; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPACE FLIGHT; VELOCITY; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NASA EXPERIMENT NUMBER 284036; NASA PROGRAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND COUNTERMEASURES; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-78 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE JOINT; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0041911400     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1511-8     Document Type: Article

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