Assessment of the reliability of central and peripheral fatigue after sustained maximal voluntary contraction of the quadriceps muscle

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 486-495

  Place, Nicolas ^a   Maffiuletti, Nicola A ^b   Martin, Alain ^a   Lepers, Romuald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central fatigue; Coefficient of variation; Fatigue; Intraclass correlation coefficient; M wave; Muscle activation; Peripheral fatigue; Twitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RELIABILITY; TORQUE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TORQUE;

EID: 34047192162     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20714     Document Type: Article

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