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Parkinsonian Rigidity Shows Variable Properties Depending on the Elbow Joint Angle

Parkinsonian rigidity has been thought to be constant through a full range of joint angle. The aim of this study was to perform a detailed investigation of joint angle dependency of rigidity. We first measured muscle tone at the elbow joint in 20 healthy subjects and demonstrated that an angle of ap...

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Autores principales: Endo, Takuyuki, Hamasaki, Toshimitsu, Okuno, Ryuhei, Yokoe, Masaru, Fujimura, Harutoshi, Akazawa, Kenzo, Sakoda, Saburo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23431499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/258374