Training-induced changes in the pattern of triceps to biceps activation during reaching tasks after chronic and severe stroke

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 483-496

  Barker, Ruth Nancy ^a,b   Brauer, Sandra ^b   Carson, Richard ^b,c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EMG; Reaching; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODIFIED ASHWORTH SCALE; MOTOR ASSESSMENT SCALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACHING; ROBOTICS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

EID: 67650716396     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1872-8     Document Type: Article

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