Postural uncertainty leads to dynamic control of cutaneous reflexes from the foot during human walking

Brain Research

Volumn 1062, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 48-62

  Haridas, Carlos ^a   Zehr, E Paul ^b,c   Misiaszek, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON REPAIR DISCOVERIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distal tibial nerve; Locomotion; Postural threat; Superficial peroneal nerve

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACILITATION; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TREADMILL; WALKING;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; FOOT; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; PERONEAL NERVE; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIAL NERVE; WALKING;

EID: 27744531919     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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