H-reflexes are smaller in dancers from The Royal Danish Ballet than in well-trained athletes
- 1 March 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 66 (2) , 116-121
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01427051
Abstract
The size of the maximalH-reflex (H max) was measured at rest and expressed as a percentage of the maximalM-response (M max) in 17 untrained subjects, 27 moderately trained subjects, 19 well-trained subjects and 7 dancers from the Royal Danish Ballet. TheH max/M max was significantly larger in the moderately and well-trained subjects than in the untrained subjects but smaller in the ballet dancers. It is therefore suggested that both the amount and the type of habitual activity may influence the excitability of spinal reflexes.Keywords
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