Upper and lower limb muscle activation is bidirectionally and ipsilaterally coupled

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1778-1789

  Huang, Helen J ^a,c   Ferris, Daniel P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral deficit; Coordination; EMG; Interlimb coupling; Neural coupling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69349093379     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31819f75a7     Document Type: Article

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