Fatigue in high- versus low-force voluntary and evoked contractions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 387-394

  Griffin, L ^a   Anderson, N C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Evoked contractions; Low frequency fatigue; Muscle fatigue; NMES

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW FREQUENCY FATIGUE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43449106187     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1310-3     Document Type: Article

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