Reproducibility of surface EMG during dynamic shoulder forward flexions: A study of clinically healthy subjects

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 433-439

  Larsson, Barbro ^a   Karlberg, Christian ^a   Elert, Jessica ^a   Gerdle, Björn ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

EMG; Mean frequency; Peak torque; Reliability; Reproducibility; RMS; Shoulder; Trapezius

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; DELTOID MUSCLE; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOULDER; SKIN ELECTRODE; TORQUE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOULDER JOINT; TORQUE;

EID: 0032830073     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.1999.00199.x     Document Type: Article

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