Roles of motor-unit recruitment in producing force variability of simulated muscle contractions

Motor Control

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-75

  Yao, Wan X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge rate; Force variability; Motor unit; Motor unit recruitment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAND MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; EVALUATION; HAND; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 2342434177     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.8.1.64     Document Type: Article

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