EMG activation of trunk and upper limb muscles following experimentally-induced overpronation and oversupination of the feet in quiet standing

Gait and Posture

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 190-194

  Ntousis, Theodoros ^a   Mandalidis, Dimitris ^a,b   Chronopoulos, Efstathios ^a,b   Athanasopoulos, Spyros ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

EMG; Overpronation oversupination; Quiet standing; Trunk muscles; Upper limb muscles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; FOOT MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; LEG LENGTH; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; STANDING; TRUNK;

EID: 84872677285     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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