Quantitative motor unit action potential analysis in paraspinal muscles

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 373-375

  Barkhaus, Paul E ^a   Periquet, M Isabel ^b   Nandedkar, Sanjeev D ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECA Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

concentric needle; electromyography; motor unit action potentials; paraspinal muscle; quantitative analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; NECK MUSCLES; SPINE; THORAX;

EID: 0031026070     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199703)20:3<373::AID-MUS19>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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