Experimental muscle pain increases trapezius muscle activity during sustained isometric contractions of arm muscles

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1767-1778

  Schulte, E ^a   Ciubotariu, A ^b   Arendt Nielsen, L ^b   Disselhorst Klug, C ^a   Rau, G ^a   Graven Nielsen, T ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Experimental muscle pain; Fatigue; Motor unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTRODE; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 3242692379     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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