Voluntary activation in the triceps brachii at short and long muscle lengths

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-70

  Cheng, Arthur J ^a   Rice, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elbow extensors; Extrapolation; Muscle length; Twitch interpolation; Voluntary activation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 73949119693     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21447     Document Type: Article

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