Effect of acute unloaded arm versus leg cycling exercise on the soleus H-reflex in adults with multiple sclerosis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 479, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 307-311

  Sosnoff, Jacob J ^a   Motl, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Hoffmann reflex; Neurological disease; Post activation depression; Spasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM EXERCISE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; LEG EXERCISE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SITTING; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPASTICITY; ARM; KINESIOTHERAPY; LEG; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARM; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 77954145918     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.086     Document Type: Article

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