Selective recruitment of single motor units in human flexor digitorum superficialis muscle during flexion of individual fingers

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 567, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 301-309

  Butler, T J ^a   Kilbreath, S L ^a   Gorman, R B ^b   Gandevia, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; LIFTING EFFORT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; COGNITION; FLEXOR DIGITORUM SUPERFICIALIS MUSCLE; FLEXOR REFLEX; GRIP STRENGTH; MUSCLE MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 23844526762     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.089201     Document Type: Article

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