Effects of maintaining touch contact on predictive and reactive balance

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2686-2695

  Johannsen, Leif ^a   Wing, Alan M ^a   Hatzitaki, Vassilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SENSORY ANALYSIS; STANDING; TOUCH; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; REFLEX; SHOULDER; TOUCH; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34147142345     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00038.2007     Document Type: Article

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