Inter-individual variability in the torque-related patterns of responses for mechanomyographic amplitude and mean power frequency

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 212-219

  Ryan, Eric D ^a   Cramer, Joel T ^a   Housh, Terry J ^b   Beck, Travis W ^b   Herda, Trent J ^a   Hartman, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanomyography; Motor unit firing rate; Motor unit recruitment; Muscle strength; Polynomial regression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MECHANOMYOGRAPHY; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MYOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TORQUE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ACCELERATION; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TORQUE;

EID: 33947522862     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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