The tendency to altered perception of airflow resistance in aged subjects might be due mainly to a reduction in diaphragmatic proprioception

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1406-1410

  Allen, S C ^a   Khattab, A ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; DENERVATION; DIAPHRAGM; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; HEART LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUNG VOLUME; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE DENERVATION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORAX PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; DIAPHRAGM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 33748976238     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.05.046     Document Type: Article

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