EMG fatigue patterns accompanying isometric fatiguing knee-extensions are different in mono- and bi-articular muscles

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 256-262

  Ebenbichler, Gerold ^a   Kollmitzer, Josef ^a   Quittan, Michael ^a   Uhl, Frank ^a   Kirtley, Chris ^a   Fialka, Veronika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Motor control; Muscle fatigue; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031778461     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(98)00015-0     Document Type: Article

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