Elicitability of muscle cramps in different leg and foot muscles

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 535-544

  Minetto, Marco Alessandro ^a,b   Botter, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multichannel surface EMG; Muscle cramps; Muscle motor point; Neuromuscular electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR HALLUCIS MUSCLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLEXOR HALLUCIS BREVIS MUSCLE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOOT; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349268124     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21382     Document Type: Article

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