The impact of stroke on the performance of grasping: Usefulness of kinetic and kinematic motion analysis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1439-1450

  Nowak, Dennis A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grasping; Isometric grip force; Kinematics; Kinetics; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

BIOMECHANICS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; STROKE;

EID: 52049091821     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.05.021     Document Type: Review

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