Central fatigue and motor cortical excitability during repeated shortening and lengthening actions

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 864-872

  Löscher, Wolfgang N ^a   Nordlund, Maria M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Concentric contractions; Eccentric contractions; Fatigue; Motor cortex excitability; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELBOW FLEXION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELBOW; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TORQUE; VOLITION;

EID: 0036259880     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10124     Document Type: Article

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