Maximal versus submaximal intensity stimulation with variable patterns

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 770-777

  Doucet, Barbara M ^a   Griffin, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Evoked contractions; Functional electrical stimulation; Muscle fatigue; Neuromuscular electrical stimulation; Variable stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 44949228261     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20992     Document Type: Article

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