The optimal stimulation pattern for skeletal muscle is dependent on muscle length

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-93

  Mela, Petra ^b   Veltink, Peter H ^a,b   Huijing, Peter A ^b,c   Salmons, Stanley ^d   Jarvis, Jonathan C ^d  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Muscle length; n lets stimulation pattern

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FORCE-TIME INTEGRAL (FTI);

ACTUATORS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MUSCLE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERONEAL NERVE; QUALITY CONTROL; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0036592599     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2002.1031976     Document Type: Article

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