Coordination dynamics in Parkinson's disease patients and healthy subjects quantified by the coordination dynamics recording method and sEMG

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 473-485

  Schalow, Giselher ^a   Paasuke M ^a   Ereline, J ^a   Gapeyeva, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Coordination dynamics; EMG; Motor program; Muscle fibre types; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGED; ARM; ATAXIA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0346903133     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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