Muscle activity determined by cosine tuning with a nontrivial preferred direction during isometric force exertion by lower limb

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2614-2624

  Nozaki, Daichi ^a,b   Nakazawa, Kimitaka ^a   Akai, Masami ^a  

^a NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^b Research Institute NRCD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FORCE; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; LEG; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; PATTERN STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TORQUE; VARIANCE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MECHANICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TORQUE;

EID: 17644424301     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00960.2004     Document Type: Article

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