Reflex response to imposed bilateral hip oscillations in human spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1849-1861

  Onushko, Tanya ^a   Schmit, Brian D ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIP; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BIOMECHANICS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIP; HUMANS; KNEE; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 35348894974     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00461.2007     Document Type: Article

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