Reciprocal inhibition in cerebral palsy
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 40 (4) , 653
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.40.4.653
Abstract
We studied reciprocal inhibition by recording the changes in firing probability of single motor units of the tibialis anterior muscle following stimulation of low-threshold afferents in the posterior tibial nerve. In 15 patients with cerebral palsy, the inhibition was as great or greater than normal. We found no evidence that group I afferents produce “reciprocal facilitation” in cerebral palsy.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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