Spasticity mechanisms - for the clinician

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn MAR, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mukherjee, Angshuman ^a   Chakravarty, Ambar ^a  

^a VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Muscle spindle; Muscle tone; Spasticity; Spinal reflexes; Supraspinal pathways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865780020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2010.00149     Document Type: Article

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