A device to evaluate motor and autonomic impairment

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 705-712

  Petrofsky, Jerrold S ^a   Lohman, Everett ^a   Lohman, Trevor ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Motor control; Nervous system; Tremor

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BALANCE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RATES; LOAD CELLS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR IMPAIRMENTS; MOTOR SYSTEMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHASE DELAY; PRESSURE MONITORS; STRAIN GAUGE; SYMPATHETIC ACTIVITIES; TREMOR; WEIGHT SHIFT;

BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; GAGES;

MOTORS;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TREMOR; WEIGHT BEARING;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67549135835     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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