Effect of cooling on thixotropic position-sense error in human biceps muscle

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 781-787

  Sekihara, Chikara ^a   Izumizaki, Masahiko ^a   Yasuda, Tomohiro ^a   Nakajima, Takayuki ^a   Atsumi, Takashi ^b   Homma, Ikuo ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooling effect; Hold short conditioning; Ia afferent discharge; Intrafusal muscle thixotropy; Position sense error

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY POSTURE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY NERVE; THIXOTROPY; VIBRATION;

ADULT; ARM; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPRIOCEPTION;

EID: 34249737954     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20779     Document Type: Article

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