Trunk antagonist co-activation is associated with impaired neuromuscular performance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 457-463

  Reeves, N Peter ^a   Cholewicki, Jacek ^a   Milner, Theodore ^b   Lee, Angela S ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Force variability; Isometric trunk exertion; Spine stability; Trunk muscle recruitment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRUNK;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGY; SPINE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TORQUE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 45849115446     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1378-9     Document Type: Article

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