Cervical spine manipulation alters sensorimotor integration: A somatosensory evoked potential study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 391-402

  Haavik Taylor, Heidi ^a   Murphy, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Cervical spine manipulation; Human; Sensorimotor integration; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NECK PAIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPINDLES; NECK MUSCLES; NECK PAIN; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 33845967506     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.09.014     Document Type: Article

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