Restricting arm use enhances compensatory reactions of leg muscles during walking

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 474-485

  Misiaszek, John E ^a   Krauss, Emily M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance; Gait; Human; Perturbation; Reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STANDING; TREADMILL; TRUNK; WALKING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; WALKING;

EID: 15244351744     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2094-8     Document Type: Article

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