Does spasticity result from hyperactive stretch reflexes? Preliminary findings from a stretch reflex characterization study

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 756-760

  Salazar Torres, J J ^a   Pandyan, A D ^b   Price, C I M ^a   Davidson, R I ^a   Barnes, M P ^a,c   Johnson, G R ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Hunters Moor Reg Neurol Rehab Ctr   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT FUNCTION; LATENT PERIOD; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPASTICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 3042773520     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280410001704359     Document Type: Article

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