Using customized rate-coding and recruitment strategies to maintain forces during repetitive activation of human muscles

Physical Therapy

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 363-375

  Chou, Li Wei ^a   Kesar, Trisha M ^b   Binder Macleod, Stuart A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 40049103734     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20070201     Document Type: Article

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