Common modulation of motor unit pairs during slow wrist movement in man

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 520, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 929-940

  Kakuda, Naoyuki ^a   Nagaoka, Masanori ^a   Wessberg, Johan ^b  

^a NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRIST; ACCELERATION; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR CARPI RADIALIS MUSCLE; FIRING RATE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; POSITION HOLDING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST EXTENSION; WRIST FLEXION; WRIST MOVEMENT;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; TIME FACTORS; WRIST;

EID: 0033230303     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.00929.x     Document Type: Article

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