Muscle-fiber conduction velocity during concentric and eccentric actions on a flywheel exercise device

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-177

  Pozzo, Marco ^a,b   Alkner, Björn ^a   Norrbrand, Lena ^a   Farina, Dario ^b,c   Tesch, Per A ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Concentric and eccentric actions; Flywheel ergometer; Muscle fiber conduction velocity; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; WEIGHTLESSNESS COUNTERMEASURES;

EID: 33746712276     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20574     Document Type: Article

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