Volitional muscle strength in the legs predicts changes in walking speed following locomotor training in people with chronic spinal cord injury

Physical Therapy

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 931-943

  Yang, Jaynie F ^a   Norton, Jonathan ^a   Nevett Duchcherer, Jennifer ^a   Roy, Francois D ^b   Gross, Douglas P ^a   Gorassini, Monica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; ROC CURVE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051555230     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100163     Document Type: Article

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