The effects of the innervation zone and interelectrode distance on the patterns of responses for electromyographic amplitude and mean power frequency versus isometric torque for the vastus lateralis muscle

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-25

  Beck, Travis W ^a   Housh, Terry J ^a   Cramer, Joel T ^b   Malek, Moh H ^a   Mielke, Michelle ^a   Hendrix, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude; Electromyography; Frequency; Innervation zone; Interelectrode distance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INNERVATION; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN STIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE;

EID: 38949217817     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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