Muscle temperature and EMG amplitude and frequency during isometric exercise

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1024-1030

  Petrofsky, Jerrold ^a   Laymon, Michael ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Environment; Exercise; Exertion; Work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MAXIUMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TEMPERATURE; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; IMMERSION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 27744524367     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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