Discharge pattern of human motor units during dynamic concentric and eccentric contractions

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-255

  Kossev, A ^a   Christova, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Decruitment threshold; Discharge pattern; Motor units; Recruitment threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ARM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031780755     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(98)00012-5     Document Type: Article

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