Central fatigue of the first dorsal interosseous muscle during low-force and high-force sustained submaximal contractions

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 298-304

  Eichelberger, Tamara D ^a   Bilodeau, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elicited contractions; Endurance; Force fatigability relationship; Hand muscles; Healthy adults; Twitch interpolation; Voluntary activation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548044483     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2007.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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