Muscular torque generation during imposed joint rotation: Torque-angle relationships when subjects' only goal is to make a constant effort

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 327-340

  Burgess, P R ^a,b   Jones, L F ^a,b   Buhler, C F ^a,b   Dewald, J P A ^a   Zhang, L Q ^a   Rymer, W Z ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Effort; EMG; Isovolitional; Joint torque; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TORQUE;

ADULT; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORIENTATION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, STRETCH; SPINAL CORD; TORQUE;

EID: 0036915060     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0899022021000037791     Document Type: Article

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