Human motor unit activity during concentric and eccentric movements

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 331-338

  Christova, P ^a   Kossev, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Concentric movement; Decruitment threshold; Eccentric movement; Motor unit; Recruitment threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; TORQUE;

ADULT; ARM; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT (NEUROLOGY); STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TORQUE;

EID: 0033807684     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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