Influences of muscle stretch reflexes on voluntary, velocity-controlled movements in spastic paraparesis

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1621-1633

  Knutsson, Evert ^a   Mårtensson, Anders ^a   Gransberg, Lennart ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Reciprocal inhibition; Spasticity; Stretch reflexes; Voluntary contraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 1842408400     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.9.1621     Document Type: Article

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