Adductor T and H reflexes in humans

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 640-645

  Ertekin, Cumhur ^a,b   Bademkiran, Fikret ^a   Tataroglu, Cengiz ^a   Aydogdu, Ibrahim ^a   Karapinars, Nevin ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Talatpasa Bulvari   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adductor reflexes; EMG; Femoral nerve; H reflex; Obturator nerve; Patellar reflexes

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADDUCTOR MUSCLE; ADDUCTOR REFLEX; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILIAC BONE; KNEE JERK REFLEX; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE; NERVE PLEXUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBTURATOR NERVE; PATELLA TENDON; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SPASTICITY; TENDON REFLEX; THIGH;

ACHILLES TENDON; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; THIGH;

EID: 33750471969     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20648     Document Type: Article

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