The use of flexible arm muscle synergies to perform an isometric stabilization task

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 525-537

  Krishnamoorthy, Vijaya ^a   Scholz, John P ^a   Latash, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Electromyogram; Human; Muscle mode; Muscle synergy; Principal component analysis; Uncontrolled manifold; Variance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST;

ADULT; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846811123     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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