Synchronization of single motor units during voluntary contractions in the upper and lower extremities

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1243-1249

  Kim, Myung Shin ^a,b   Masakado, Yoshihisa ^a   Tomita, Yutaka ^a   Chino, Naoichi ^a   Pae, Young Sook ^b   Lee, Kyung Eun ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coherence analysis; Cross correlation analysis; Human subjects; Lower extremity muscles; Motor unit synchronization; Upper extremity muscles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARM; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LEG; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0034965995     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(01)00549-1     Document Type: Article

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