Phase- and task-specific modulation of soleus H-reflexes during drop-jumps and landings

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-79

  Leukel, Christian ^a   Gollhofer, Albert ^a   Keller, Martin ^a   Taube, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drop jump; H reflex; Landing; Spinal adaptation; Task specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; JUMPING; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 49649086349     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1450-5     Document Type: Article

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