Differences in coding provided by proprioceptive and vestibular sensory signals may contribute to lateral instability in vestibular loss subjects

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 391-410

  Allum, John H J ^a,d   Oude Nijhuis, Lars B ^a,b   Carpenter, Mark G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d University ORL Clinic   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human balance control; Leg flexion responses; Muscle activity; Proprioception; Stretch reflex; Vestibular loss

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADDUCTION; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANKLE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIP; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE FUNCTION; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; LINEAR SYSTEM; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MOTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROTATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINE; STANDING; STIMULUS; TIME; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PROPRIOCEPTION; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, STRETCH; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; WALKING;

EID: 37249066801     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1112-z     Document Type: Article

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