Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on results of the twitch interpolation technique

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1125-1128

  Urbach, Dietmar ^a   Awiszus, Friedemann ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Maximal voluntary contraction; Motor cortex; Muscle strength; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Voluntary activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LEG; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0033935844     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4598(200007)23:7<1125::AID-MUS18>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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