Influence of prolonged unilateral cervical muscle contraction on head repositioning - Decreased overshoot after a 5-min static muscle contraction task

Manual Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 229-234

  Malmström, Eva Maj ^a,b   Karlberg, Mikael ^b   Holmström, Eva ^a   Fransson, Per Anders ^b   Hansson, Gert Åke ^a   Magnusson, Måns ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Muscle contraction; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANGE OF MOTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK PAIN; PILOT PROJECTS; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 77951652401     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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