The recruitment of different compartments within a muscle depends on the mechanics of the movement

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-34

  Wakeling, James M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Electromyography; Muscle function

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; CYCLE TRANSPORT; ELECTRODE; HOMINID; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CYCLING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; BICYCLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; BICYCLING; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 63249094370     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0459     Document Type: Article

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