Wrist vibration affects the production of finely graded forces

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 435-440

  Bock, Otmar ^a   Vercher, Jean Louis ^b   Gauthier, Gabriel ^b  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Force; Isometric; Motor command; Muscle; Proprioception; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FINELY GRADED FORCE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION; WRIST;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIBRATION; WRIST;

EID: 18244383522     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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