A paradigm to assess postural responses triggered by anteroposterior translations in healthy seated individuals

Gait and Posture

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 417-423

  St Onge, Nancy ^a,b,c   Côté, Julie N ^c,d   Patenaude, Isabelle ^c,d   Fung, Joyce ^c,d  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION OF GREATER MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c JEWISH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Kinematics; Low intensity perturbation; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHAIR; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERGONOMICS; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRUNK;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NECK INJURIES; NECK MUSCLES; THORAX;

EID: 70349233745     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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