Muscle fatigue and electromyographic changes are not different in women and men matched for strength

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 298-304

  Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos ^a,b   Siatras, Theophanis ^a   Spyropoulou, Elma ^a   Paraschos, Ilias ^a   Patikas, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coactivation; Dynamometry; Electromyogram; Fatigue; Gender

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGONIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TORQUE;

EID: 4344641404     PISSN: 14396319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-004-1095-4     Document Type: Article

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