Coordination of the upper-limb segments in physiological tremor with various external loads

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Takanokura, Masato ^a   Makabe, Hitoshi ^b   Kaneko, Kenichi ^c   Mito, Kazuyuki ^d   Sakamoto, Kazuyoshi ^d  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Fuji University   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon filled with helium gas; Coherence spectrum; Hypo gravitational environment; Power spectrum; Upper limb; Weight band

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; UPPER EXTREMITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34548689898     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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