Immediate effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and focal knee joint cooling on quadriceps activation

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1175-1181

  Pietrosimone, Brian G ^a   Hart, Joseph M ^b   Saliba, Susan A ^a   Hertel, Jay ^a   Ingersoll, Christopher D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c FNATA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthrogenic muscle inhibition; Central activation ratio; Cryotherapy; Motor neuron; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOTHERAPY; DYNAMOMETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE ARTHRITIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WESTERN ONTARIO AND MCMASTER UNIVERSITIES OSTEOARTHRITIS INDEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INNERVATION; KNEE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLD TEMPERATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 67650080465     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181982557     Document Type: Article

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