Steadiness is reduced and motor unit discharge is more variable in old adults

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 600-612

  Laidlaw, Douglass H ^a   Bilodeau, Martin ^a   Enoka, Roger M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Finger movement; First dorsal interosseous; Motor unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0034082627     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(200004)23:4<600::AID-MUS20>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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