Mechanomyographic and electromyographic responses to eccentric muscle contractions

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 664-671

  Coburn, Jared W ^a   Housh, Terry J ^b   Malek, Moh H ^b   Weir, Joseph P ^c   Cramer, Joel T ^d   Beck, Travis W ^b   Johnson, Glen O ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic myography; Eccentric contractions; Electromyography; Mechanomyography; Phonomyography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TORQUE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TORQUE;

EID: 33646260187     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20509     Document Type: Article

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