Voluntary muscle activation varies with age and muscle group

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 457-462

  Jakobi, Jennifer M ^a   Rice, Charles L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arm; Elbow muscles; Force; Maximal voluntary contraction; Practice; Twitch interpolation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ARM; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VOLITION;

EID: 0036021793     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00012.2002     Document Type: Article

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