Motor unit properties of biceps brachii in chronic stroke patients assessed with high-density surface EMG

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 177-185

  Kallenberg, Laura A C ^a   Hermens, Hermie J ^a  

^a ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High density surface EMG; Motor unit action potentials; Motor unit characteristics; Multichannel array EMG; Stroke patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549088717     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21090     Document Type: Article

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