Cervical muscle response to right posterolateral impacts

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 543-550

  Kumar, Shrawan ^a   Ferrari, Robert ^a   Narayan, Yogesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Cervical muscles; Electromyography; Motor vehicle collisions; Rear impacts; Whiplash injury

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HEALTH RISKS; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE;

POSTEROLATERAL IMPACT; POSTURE CONTROL;

BIOMECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CHAIR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TRUNK; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NECK MUSCLES; POSTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 3242677786     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2004.03.008     Document Type: Article

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