Movement-related and steady-state electromyographic activity of human elbow flexors in slow transition movements between two equilibrium states

Neuroscience

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 923-933

  Tal'Nov, A N ^a   Cherkassky, V L ^a   Kostyukov, A I ^a  

^a BOGOMOLETZ INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

EMG; Equilibrium point hypothesis; Hysteresis; Motor control; Muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYSTERESIS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 0030844838     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00702-6     Document Type: Article

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