The nervous system and movement

ACSM's Advanced Exercise Physiology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-96

  Edgerton, V Reggie ^a   Roy, Roland R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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