Plantar stimulation as a possible countermeasure to microgravity-induced neuromotor degradation

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 787-794

  Layne, Charles S ^a,b   Forth, Katharine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Bed rest; Dry immersion; Foot stimulation; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIRPLANE CREW; DYNAMIC FOOT STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXERCISE; GRAVITY; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FOOT; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS COUNTERMEASURES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 48649095537     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2293.2008     Document Type: Review

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