The effects of passive exercise therapy initiated prior to or after the development of hyperreflexia following spinal transection

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 405-409

  Yates, Charlotte C ^a,b   Charlesworth, Amanda ^a   Reese, Nancy B ^b   Skinner, Robert D ^a   Garcia Rill, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

H reflex; Hyperreflexia; Passive exercise

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HYPERREFLEXIA; KINESIOTHERAPY; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE EXERCISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51349093717     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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