Chapter 29 Stiffness with continuous motor unit activity

Handbook of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2003, Pages 463-477

  Brown, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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