Foam posturography: Standing on foam is not equivalent to standing with decreased rapidly adapting mechanoreceptive sensation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 519-527

  Patel, M ^a   Fransson, P A ^a   Johansson, R ^a   Magnusson, M ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinical test; Cooling; Foam; Plantar sensation; Postural stability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; FOAM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPIDLY ADAPTING MECHANORECEPTIVE SENSATION; SENSATION; STABILOGRAPHY; STANDING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TORQUE; TOUCH; VIBRATION SENSE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SENSATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOUCH; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952535560     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2498-6     Document Type: Article

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