Motor unit discharge pattern in soleus muscles associated with rapid body sway

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 207-211

  Hayashi, R ^a,b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Motor control; Motor unit; Rapid body sway; Soleus muscle activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0033066857     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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