The effect of different skin-ankle brace application pressures on quiet single-limb balance and electromyographic activation onset of lower limb muscles

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Papadopoulos, Emmanuel S ^a   Nikolopoulos, Christos ^b   Badekas, Athanasios ^c   Vagenas, George ^a   Papadakis, Stamatios A ^d,e   Athanasopoulos, Spyros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Ortho Foot Center   (Cyprus)

^c Police Medical Division   (Greece)

^d KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB ABSENCE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS MUSCLE; PRESSURE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STUDENT; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BRACES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PRESSURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH;

EID: 35948963260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-8-89     Document Type: Article

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