Temporal modulations of agonist and antagonist muscle activities accompanying improved performance of ballistic movements

Human Movement Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-28

  Liang, Nan ^a   Yamashita, Takamasa ^a   Ni, Zhen ^a   Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Murakami, Tsuneji ^a   Yahagi, Susumu ^b   Kasai, Tatsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ballistic movement; Maximum velocity; Motor strategy; Practice; Triphasic EMG pattern

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; WRIST;

EID: 38149130447     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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