Tracking motor unit action potentials in the tibialis anterior during fatigue

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 506-514

  Beck, Rebecca B ^a   O'Malley, Mark J ^a   Stegeman, Dick F ^b   Houtman, Caroline J ^c   Connolly, Sean ^d   Zwarts, Machiel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Motor unit action potential amplitude; Motor unit conduction velocity; Motor unit recruitment; Surface electromyogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYOSITIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 25844520706     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20375     Document Type: Article

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