Neuromuscular responses to mechanical foot stimulation: The influence of loading and postural context

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 844-851

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Countermeasure; Electromyography; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOOT; FOOT SOLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTURE; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHT-BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

SOLEIDAE; SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 51149092627     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2176.2008     Document Type: Article

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