The origins of physiological tremor as deduced from immersions of the finger in various liquids

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 29-41

  Takanokura, Masato ^a   Kokuzawa, Naoyuki ^b   Sakamoto, Kazuyoshi ^b  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Physiological tremor; Tremor model; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; EVALUATION; EXAMINATION; FINGER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIQUID; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREMOR; VISCOSITY; WATER IMMERSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMERSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINGERS; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREMOR; VISCOSITY;

EID: 1842857699     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-002-0677-2     Document Type: Article

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