Changes in soleus motoneuron pool reflex excitability and surface EMG parameters during fatiguing low- vs. high-intensity isometric contractions

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 341-350

  Pääsuke, Mati ^a   Rannama, L ^a   Ereline, J ^a   Gapeyeva, H ^a   Oopik V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Fatigue; H reflex; Plantarflexor muscles

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITABILITY; EXERCISE RECOVERY; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36349009732     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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