Shoulder joint position sense improves with external load

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 517-525

  Suprak, David N ^a   Osternig, Louis R ^b   Van Donkelaar, Paul ^b   Karduna, Andrew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

External load; Joint position sense; Muscle activation; Musculotendinous mechanoreceptors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; ELEVATION ANGLE; EXTERNAL LOAD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT POSITION SENSE; LIMB; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCULOTENDINOUS MECHANORECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; SHOULDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENDON RECEPTOR; VECTOR ANGLE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SHOULDER JOINT; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 36349027978     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.39.6.517-525     Document Type: Article

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