Alterations in contractile properties of human skeletal muscle induced by joint immobilization

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 530, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 521-532

  Seki, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Taniguchi, Yuko ^a   Mitsuo, Narusawa ^a  

^a International Budo University   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FINGER JOINT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MODULATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THUMB; FATIGUE INDEX; JOINT IMMOBILIZATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION TIME; MUSCLE HALF RELAXATION TIME; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; TWITCH TETANUS RATIO;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINTS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035253254     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2001.0521k.x     Document Type: Article

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