Persons with Parkinson's disease exhibit decreased neuromuscular complexity during gait

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1390-1397

  Rodriguez, Kathryn L ^a   Roemmich, Ryan T ^a   Cam, Bruce ^a   Fregly, Benjamin J ^a   Hass, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Gait; Motor control; Motor modules; Non negative matrix factorization; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GAIT; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREADMILL; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PARKINSON DISEASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878934691     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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