Joint angle dependence of intermuscle difference in postactivation potentiation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 519-523

  Miyamoto, Naokazu ^a   Mitsukawa, Naotoshi ^a   Sugisaki, Norihide ^a   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^b   Kawakami, Yasuo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FITNESS AND SPORTS IN KANOYA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Mechanomyography; Medial gastrocnemius; Soleus; Twitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950278634     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21529     Document Type: Article

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