Auditory startle alters the response of human subjects exposed to a single whiplash-like perturbation

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 146-154

  Blouin, Jean Sébastien ^a   Inglis, J Timothy ^a,b   Siegmund, Gunter P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON REPAIR DISCOVERIES   (Canada)

^c MEA Forensic Engineers and Scientists   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Loud startling sound; Neck muscles; Reflex; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAVERTEBRAL MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALENE MUSCLE; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STERNOHYOID MUSCLE; TRUNK; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECK MUSCLES; SEX FACTORS; STARTLE REACTION; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 30944451775     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000195157.75056.df     Document Type: Article

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