Motor unit forces and recruitment patterns after cervical spinal cord injury

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 212-220

  Thomas, Christine K ^a,b   Broton, James G ^a,b   Calancie, Blair ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

contraction time; motor axon sprouting; muscle weakness; partial denervation; spike triggered averaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0031046010     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199702)20:2<212::AID-MUS12>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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