F wave measurements detecting changes in motor neuron excitability after ischaemic stroke

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-115

  Lukács, Miklós ^a  

^a Diósgyör Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Excitabiliy; Fwave; Lower motor neuron stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; F WAVE; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPASTICITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34147120181     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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