Pifco physiotherapy vibratory massager
- Made:
- 1970s
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Pifco physiotherapy vibratory massager, early 1970s. Adapted for use to stimulate muscle spindle, used as classroom apparatus. Also used in research for paper: "The contribution of muscle afferents kinaesthesia shown by vibration induced illusions of movement and by the effects of paralysing joint afferents", Brain 95 (1972) pp 705-48 by GM Goodwin, DI McCloskey, PBC Matthews.
Details
- Category:
- Laboratory Medicine
- Object Number:
- 1997-751
- Materials:
- plastic (unidentified)
- type:
- massager
- credit:
- Oxford University (Department of Physiology)
