Motor unit action potential topography and its use in motor unit number estimation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 280-291

  Blok, Joleen H ^a,b,c   Van Dijk, Johannes P ^b,c,d   Zwarts, Machiel J ^b,c,d   Stegeman, Dick F ^b,c,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

F waves; Motor unit number estimation; MPS, multiple point stimulation; Multichannel recording; Spatiotemporal profile; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPOUND MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT NUMBER ESTIMATION; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THENAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CELL COUNT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 24144453535     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20357     Document Type: Article

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