Age-related muscle fatigue after a low-force fatiguing contraction is explained by central fatigue

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 457-466

  Yoon, Tejin ^a   De Lap, Bonnie Schlinder ^a   Griffith, Erin E ^a   Hunter, Sandra K ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Elbow flexor muscles; EMG; Force fluctuations; Voluntary activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELBOW FLEXOR MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TORQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PERCEPTION; TORQUE; VOLITION;

EID: 41849149339     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20969     Document Type: Article

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