Therapeutic cooling: No effect on hamstring reflexes and knee stability

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1329-1334

  Melnyk, Mark ^a   Faist, Michael ^b   Claes, Lutz ^a   Friemert, Benedikt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior tibia translation; Cold therapy; Medium latency response (MLR); Short latency response (SLR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE INJURY; KNEE INSTABILITY; MUSCLE REFLEX; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SPINAL REFLEX;

ADULT; CRYOTHERAPY; GERMANY; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; THIGH; TIBIA;

EID: 33745853823     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000227635.86285.3b     Document Type: Article

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