Continuum of reflex excitability in hemiplegia: Influence of muscle length and muscular transformation after heel-cord lengthening and immobilization on the pathophysiology of spasticity and clonus

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 534-548

  Jean Pierre, Lin ^a   Brown, J Keith ^b   Walsh, E Geoffrey ^c  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOT; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPASTICITY; TENDON REFLEX; TIBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANKLE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEEL; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHENOTYPE; REFLEX, STRETCH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0345240936     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162299001152     Document Type: Article

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