Between-day reliability of upper extremity H-reflexes

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 317-323

  Stowe, Ann Marie ^a   Hughes Zahner, Laura ^a   Stylianou, Antonis Pantakis ^a,b   Schindler Ivens, Sheila ^c   Quaney, Barbara Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

^c MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Between day reliability; H reflex; Healthy adults; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HAND; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 41949110046     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.01.031     Document Type: Article

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