Higher Muscle Passive Stiffness in Parkinson's Disease Patients Than in Controls Measured by Myotonometry

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 800-802

  Marusiak, Jarosław ^a   Kisiel Sajewicz, Katarzyna ^a   Jaskólska, Anna ^a   Jaskólski, Artur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Parkinson disease; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOLOGY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYOTONOMETRY; PARKINSON DISEASE; RIGIDITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TONOMETRY; UNIFIED PARKINSON DISEASE RATING SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 77951287486     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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