Motor unit recruitment during lengthening contractions of human wrist flexors

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1535-1541

  Stotz, Paula J ^a   Bawa, Parveen ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lengthening contraction; Motoneuron; Motor unit; Recruitment; Size principle; Wrist muscles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; WEIGHT-BEARING; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0034773569     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.1179     Document Type: Article

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