CAN VIBRATION‐INDUCED ILLUSIONS BE USED AS A MUSCLE PERCEPTION TEST FOR NORMAL AND CEREBRAL‐PALSIED CHILDREN?
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Vol. 26 (4) , 449-456
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8749.1984.tb04470.x
Abstract
Since poor control of muscle contractions in cerebral palsy may be due partly to defective processing of data originating from muscle, the need arose for a test as uncontaminated as possible by other afferent effects. For 18 normal children, vibration of the brachial biceps tendon always gave the illusion of elbow extension: when the triceps was vibrated the opposite illusion occurred. For 22 cerebral-palsied children the vibration test was successful for 26 elbows and failed for 18. These failures might provide a future explanation for certain therapeutic failures.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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