Control of hand impedance under static conditions and during reaching movement

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2676-2685

  Darainy, Mohammad ^a,b   Towhidkhah, Farzad ^c   Ostry, David J ^a,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY;

ADULT; ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HAND; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 34147101081     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01081.2006     Document Type: Article

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