Muscle vibration sustains motor unit firing rate during submaximal isometric fatigue in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 535, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 929-936

  Griffin, L ^a   Garland, S J ^a   Ivanova, T ^a   Gossen, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ENDURANCE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; TIME; TORQUE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VIBRATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; VIBRATION;

EID: 0035884354     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.2001.00929.x     Document Type: Article

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