Cross-education of strength depends on limb dominance: Implications for theory and application

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 179-187

  Farthing, Jonathan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain activation; fMRI; Handedness; Motor learning; Skill transfer; Strength transfer; Unilateral training

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADDUCTION; ARM INJURY; ARM MUSCLE; CONVALESCENCE; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELBOW FLEXION; EXERCISE; FINGER; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAINING; ULNA; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 70349859899     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JES.0b013e3181b7e882     Document Type: Review

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