Reproducible measurement of voluntary activation of human elbow flexors with motor cortical stimulation

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 236-242

  Todd, Gabrielle ^a   Taylor, Janet L ^a   Gandevia, S C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Motor cortex; Muscle strength; Reliability; Twitch interpolation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINAL CORD; TORQUE;

ELBOW; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 3042523241     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01336.2003     Document Type: Article

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