Relation between isometric muscle force and surface EMG in intrinsic hand muscles as function of the arm geometry

Brain Research

Volumn 1163, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-85

  Del Santo, Francesco ^a   Gelli, Francesca ^a   Ginanneschi, Federica ^a   Popa, Traian ^b   Rossi, Alessandro ^a  

^a Sezione di Neurofisiologia Clinica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hand muscle; Motor units recruitment; Rate coding; Recurrence analysis; Spectral parameter

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARM; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITABILITY; FORCE; GEOMETRY; HAND MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 34547285018     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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