Effect of fatigue on force fluctuations in knee extensors in young adults

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1920, 2010, Pages 2783-2798

  Singh, Navrag B ^a   Arampatzis, Adamantios ^b   Duda, Georg ^a   Heller, Markus O ^a   Taylor, William R ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Force fluctuation; Knee extensors; Muscle fatigue; Physiological tremor; Power spectrum; Steadiness

Indexed keywords

FORCE MEASUREMENT; POWER SPECTRUM;

ABSOLUTE ERROR; BEFORE AND AFTER; FORCE FLUCTUATIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INTRACLASS CORRELATIONS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTIONS; KNEE EXTENSION; KNEE EXTENSOR; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FATIGUES; PEAK POWER; POWER FREQUENCY; SEATED POSTURE; SPECTRAL STRUCTURE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD ERRORS; TEST SETS; TIME DOMAIN; TORQUE SIGNALS;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77953488653     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0091     Document Type: Article

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