Elastic, viscous, and mass load effects on poststroke muscle recruitment and co-contraction during reaching: A pilot study

Physical Therapy

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 665-678

  Stoeckmann, Tina M ^a   Sullivan, Katherine J ^b   Scheidt, Robert A ^c,d  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; STROKE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; ARM; ELASTICITY; ELBOW; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARESIS; PILOT PROJECTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SHOULDER; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 67649817339     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20080128     Document Type: Article

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