Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 7 , Pages 1314-1322 , July 2008

Activation Characteristics of Trunk Muscles During Cyclic Upper-Body Perturbations Caused by an Oscillating Pole

Presented in part as a poster to the Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft, March 29, 2006, Munich, Germany.

  • Christoph Anders, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Christoph Anders, PhD, Clinic for Trauma-, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, Division for Motor Research, Pathophysiology and Biomechanics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, D-07740 Jena, Germany
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  • Beatrix Wenzel, MD
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  • Hans C. Scholle, PhD

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doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.11.047

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 7 , Pages 1314-1322 , July 2008

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