Neuromuscular response to exercise heat stress

Medicine and Sport Science

Volumn 53, Issue , 2008, Pages 39-60

  Cheung, Stephen S ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 50149110203     PISSN: 02545020     EISSN: 16622812     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000151549     Document Type: Article

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