Force control and degree of motor impairments in chronic stroke

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1952-1961

  Lodha, Neha ^a   Naik, Sagar K ^a   Coombes, Stephen A ^b   Cauraugh, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Force regulation; Regularity; Stroke; Time dependent structure; Upper extremity; Variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CHRONIC STROKE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; ISOMETRICS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURVIVOR; WRIST; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; WRIST;

EID: 77956939576     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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