Co-activity during maximum voluntary contraction: A study of four lower-extremity muscles in children with and without cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 377-381

  Tedroff, Kristina ^a   Knutson, Loretta M ^b   Soderberg, Gary L ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPASTICITY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 42449121407     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.02055.x     Document Type: Article

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