Bilateral impairments in task-dependent modulation of the long-latency stretch reflex following stroke

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1373-1380

  Trumbower, Randy D ^a   Finley, James M ^b   Shemmell, Jonathan B ^c   Honeycutt, Claire F ^f   Perreault, Eric J ^d,e,f  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm; Brain; Long latency; Modulation; Stretch reflex; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LONG LATENCY REFLEX; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SURVIVOR; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, STRETCH; STROKE;

EID: 84878898758     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.01.013     Document Type: Article

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