Neck rigidity in Parkinson's disease patients is related to incomplete suppression of reflexive head stabilization

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 336-346

  Anastasopoulos, Dimitri ^a,b   Maurer, Christoph ^b   Nasios, Gregory ^b,c   Mergner, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dynamic model; Parkinson's disease; Passive head rotation; Rigidity; Suppression of reflexive head stabilization

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; BROMOCRIPTINE; LEVODOPA; SELEGILINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; FEMALE; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NECK MUSCLE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPINAL REFLEX; SPINE STABILIZATION; TORQUE; TRUNK;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NECK MUSCLES; NEURAL INHIBITION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURAL BALANCE; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; ROTATION; TORQUE;

EID: 67349261788     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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