Spatial and temporal changes of upper trapezius muscle fiber conduction velocity are not predicted by surface EMG spectral analysis during a dynamic upper limb task

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 236-241

  Falla, Deborah ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^a   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Dynamic contraction; Instantaneous mean frequency; Trapezius muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 33747169612     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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