Novel muscle patterns for reaching after cervical spinal cord injury: A case for motor redundancy

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-147

  Koshland, Gail F ^a   Galloway, James C ^b   Farley, Becky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Kinematics; Multijoint arm movement; Neurological disorders

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; DIAZEPAM; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WRIST;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARALYSIS; SHOULDER JOINT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 23744450273     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2218-9     Document Type: Article

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