Short term alteration of balance control after a reduction of plantar mechanoreceptor sensation through cooling

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 535, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-44

  Billot, Maxime ^a,b,c   Handrigan, Grant A ^a,b,d   Simoneau, Martin ^a,b   Corbeil, Philippe ^a,b   Teasdale, Normand ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Foot sole sensitivity; Hypothermic ischaemia; Postural stability; Sensory reweighting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COOLING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; FOOT SOLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADULT; COLD TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROPRIOCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873249153     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.022     Document Type: Article

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