Assessment of voluntary activation by stimulation of one muscle or two synergistic muscles

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 112-119

  Williams, David M ^a   Bilodeau, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evoked torque; Isometric contraction; Synergists; Twitch interpolation; Voluntary activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELBOW; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TORQUE; VARIATION (GENETICS); VOLITION;

EID: 0347991944     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10508     Document Type: Article

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