Skill and selection bias has least influence on motor unit action potential firing rate/frequency

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 387-392

  Chu, Jennifer ^a   Takehara, I ^b   Li, T C ^b   Schwartz, I ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MACHINE; MEDICAL STAFF; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SATISFACTION; SKILL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0242468512     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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