Mean power frequency and amplitude of the mechanomyographic signal during maximal eccentric isokinetic muscle actions

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-127

  Evetovich, T K ^b   Housh, T J ^c   Weir, J P ^c   Johnson, G O ^c   Smith, D B ^c   Ebersole, K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Eccentric; Mechanomyographic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRONEUROLOGY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033044898     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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