Knee joint angular velocities and accelerations during the patellar tendon jerk

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-259

  Lebiedowska, Maria K ^a   Sikdar, Siddhartha ^b   Eranki, Avinash ^b   Garmirian, Lindsay ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Imaging; Monosynaptic reflex; Rectus femoris; Stretch reflex; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ANGULAR KNEE KINEMATICS; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TENDON REFLEX; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; REFLEX, STRETCH;

EID: 79957696810     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.04.018     Document Type: Article

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