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Pre- And Post-Alpha Motoneuronal Control Of The Soleus H-Reflex During Sinusoidal Hip Movements In Human Spinal Cord Injury, Maria Knikou, Debjani Chaudhuri, Elizabeth Kay, Brian D. Schmit Aug 2006

Pre- And Post-Alpha Motoneuronal Control Of The Soleus H-Reflex During Sinusoidal Hip Movements In Human Spinal Cord Injury, Maria Knikou, Debjani Chaudhuri, Elizabeth Kay, Brian D. Schmit

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

The aim of this study was to establish the contribution of hip-mediated sensory feedback to spinal interneuronal circuits during dynamic conditions in people with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Specifically, we investigated the effects of synergistic and antagonistic group I afferents on the soleus H-reflex during imposed sinusoidal hip movements. The soleus H-reflex was conditioned by stimulating the common peroneal nerve (CPN) at short (2, 3, and 4 ms) and long (80, 100, and 120 ms) conditioning test (C-T) intervals to assess the reciprocal and pre-synaptic inhibition of the soleus H-reflex, respectively. The soleus H-reflex was also conditioned by medial …