Impaired corticomuscular coherence during isometric elbow flexion contractions in humans with cervical spinal cord injury

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1991-2000

  Cremoux, Sylvain ^a   Tallet, Jessica ^b   Dal Maso, Fabien ^c,d   Berton, Eric ^e   Amarantini, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

^b UPS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

actual contractions; EEG; EMG; force level; SCI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOMUSCULAR COHERENCE; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NET JOINT TORQUE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION; TORQUE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; ELBOW; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ADULT; CERVICAL CORD; ELBOW; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 85026503220     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13641     Document Type: Article

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