Reflex changes associated with anticipatory postural adjustments preceding voluntary arm movements in standing humans

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4523-4526

  Vedula, Siddharth ^a   Stapley, Paul J ^a   Kearney, Robert E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ANTICIPATORY POSTURAL ADJUSTMENTS; DYNAMIC CHANGES; HUMAN STABILITIES; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; RELATIVE TIMING; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; UNILATERAL RIGHTS;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; POTENTIOMETRY; REFLEX; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; TIME; TORQUE;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLES; POSTURE; POTENTIOMETRY; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 61849091996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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