Respiratory and stress-induced activation of low-threshold motor units in the human trapezius muscle

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 689-701

  Westgaard, Rolf H ^a   Bonato, Paolo ^b,c   Westad, Christian ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DRIVE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; STRESS; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; RESPIRATORY MUSCLES; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SHOULDER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750805553     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0587-3     Document Type: Article

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