Use of motor cortex stimulation to measure simultaneously the changes in dynamic muscle properties and voluntary activation in human muscles

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1756-1766

  Todd, Gabrielle ^a,b   Taylor, Janet L ^b   Butler, Jane E ^b   Martin, Peter G ^b   Gorman, Robert B ^b   Gandevia, Simon C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Hypothermia; Muscle relaxation rate; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXERCISE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; ELBOW; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34247885842     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00962.2006     Document Type: Article

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