Cervical muscle response to whiplash-type right anterolateral impacts

European Spine Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 398-407

  Kumar, Shrawan ^a   Ferrari, Robert ^a   Narayan, Yogesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervical muscles; Electromyography; Motor vehicle collisions; Right anterolateral impacts; Whiplash injury

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TRUNK; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 4344631462     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-004-0700-x     Document Type: Article

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