The tonic stretch reflex and spastic hypertonia after spinal cord injury

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 386-396

  Woolacott, Adam J ^a   Burne, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hypertonia; Muscle spasm; Spasticity; Spinal cord injury; Tonic stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; LEG MUSCLE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE TONE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REST; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; REFLEX, STRETCH; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 33748866670     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0478-7     Document Type: Article

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