Reliability of quantitative motor unit action potential parameters

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-113

  Takehara, Itaru ^a   Chu, Jennifer ^a   Li, Tung Chou ^a   Schwartz, Ira ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Firing rate; Motor unit action potential; Quantitative needle electromyography; Reproducibility; Size index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROMES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 3042771399     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20046     Document Type: Article

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