Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 229-234 , June 2010

Influence of prolonged unilateral cervical muscle contraction on head repositioning – Decreased overshoot after a 5-min static muscle contraction task

  • Eva-Maj Malmström

      Affiliations

    • Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Clinical Sciences, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Clinical Sciences, Lund University Hospital, S-22185 Lund, Sweden. Tel.: +46 46 171705; fax: +46 46 2110968.
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  • Mikael Karlberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Clinical Sciences, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Eva Holmström

      Affiliations

    • Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Per-Anders Fransson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Clinical Sciences, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Gert-Åke Hansson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Måns Magnusson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Clinical Sciences, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Received 4 September 2008 ,Revised 29 October 2009 ,Accepted 14 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2009.12.003

Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 229-234 , June 2010

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