Effect of kinetic redundancy on hand digit control in children with DCD

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 410, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-46

  Oliveira, Marcio A ^a   Shim, Jae Kun ^a   Loss, Jefferson Fagundes ^b   Petersen, Ricardo D S ^b   Clark, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Children; DCD; Development; Finger force control; Motor redundancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; KINETICS; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 33750496607     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.09.065     Document Type: Article

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