Reliability of a novel neurostimulation method to study involuntary muscle phenomena

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-100

  Minetto, Marco Alessandro ^a,b   Botter, Alberto ^b   Ravenni, Roberta ^c   Merletti, Roberto ^b   De Grandis, Domenico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c S Maria della Misericordia Rovigo Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fasciculation potentials; Multichannel surface EMG; Muscle cramps; Neuromuscular electrical stimulation; Threshold frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FASCICULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FASCICULATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37749014958     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20903     Document Type: Article

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