Motor unit conduction velocity during sustained contraction after eccentric exercise

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1927-1933

  Hedayatpour, Nosratollah ^a   Falla, Deborah ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Vila Chã, Carolina ^a   Farina, Dario ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Doms; Intramuscular emg; Muscle damage; Muscle fiber

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; TORQUE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349653020     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181a3a505     Document Type: Article

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