Recumbent stepping has similar but simpler neural control compared to walking

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 427-438

  Stoloff, Rebecca H ^a   Zehr, E Paul ^c   Ferris, Daniel P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WALKING;

EID: 34147153393     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0745-7     Document Type: Article

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