Electromyographic activity of voluntarily activated trunk flexor and extensor muscles in post-stroke hemiparetic subjects

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 790-796

  Dickstein, Ruth ^a,c   Shefi, Sara ^b   Marcovitz, Emanuel ^c   Villa, Yael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Flieman Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

Exercise; Rehabilitation; Stroke; Trunk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERECTOR SPINAE MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; EXTERNAL OBLIQUE MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STROKE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; AGED; BACK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; VOLITION;

EID: 1442348167     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2003.11.018     Document Type: Article

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