Blood pressure and cerebral oxygenation responses to skeletal muscle tension: A comparison of two physical maneuvers to prevent vasovagal reactions

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-25

  France, C R ^a   France, J L ^a   Patterson, S M ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral oxygenation; Muscle tension; Orthostatic challenge; Vasovagal syncope

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDING; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGIC PROCESSES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; POSTURE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL;

EID: 33644901324     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2005.00642.x     Document Type: Article

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