Arm reactions evoked by the initial exposure to a small balance perturbation: A pilot study

Gait and Posture

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 300-303

  Corbeil, Philippe ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^b   van Meel, Marloes ^b   Maki, Brian E ^a,c,d  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arm movements; Balance recovery; EMG; Postural control; Triggered reactions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REACTION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84872681224     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: 18792219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2012.07.017     Document Type: Article

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