Electrical stimulation cramp threshold frequency correlates well with the occurrence of skeletal muscle cramps

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 364-368

  Miller, Kevin C ^a   Knight, Kenneth L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cramp history; Electrical stimulation; Genetics; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN THRESHOLD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62849103389     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21170     Document Type: Article

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