The age-related changes of trunk responses to Achilles tendon vibration

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 467, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-224

  Abrahámová, Diana ^a   Mancini, Martina ^b   Hlavačka, František ^a   Chiari, Lorenzo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon; Age; Human balance; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; VIBRATION;

ACHILLES TENDON; AGED; AGING; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 70350761550     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.041     Document Type: Article

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