High-intensity unilateral dorsiflexor resistance training results in bilateral neuromuscular plasticity after stroke

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-104

  Dragert, Katie ^a   Zehr, E Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON REPAIR DISCOVERIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross education; Interlimb; Reflex; Rehabilitation; Strength training; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; KINEMATICS; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; STROKE; WALKING;

EID: 84875489752     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3351-x     Document Type: Article

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