Muscle activation assessment: Effects of method, stimulus number, and joint angle

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 740-746

  Bampouras, Theodoros M ^a,b   Reeves, Neil D ^a   Baltzopoulos, Vasilios ^a   Maganaris, Constantinos N ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central activation ratio; Electrical stimulation; Interpolated twitch technique; Maximum voluntary contraction; Series elastic component

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CENTRAL ACTIVATION RATIO; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPOLATED TWITCH TECHNIQUE; JOINT; JOINT ANGLE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 33845285526     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20610     Document Type: Article

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