Age effect on fatigue-induced limb acceleration as a consequence of high-level sustained submaximal contraction

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 675-683

  Huang, Chien Ting ^a   Huang, Chien Chun ^b   Young, Ming Shing ^b   Hwang, Ing Shiou ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age; Electromyography; Force tremor; Muscle fatigue

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 34547584933     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-007-0460-5     Document Type: Article

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