Influence of fatigue on the simulated relation between the amplitude of the surface electromyogram and muscle force

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

Volumn 368, Issue 1920, 2010, Pages 2765-2781

  Dideriksen, Jakob L ^a   Farina, Dario ^a   Enoka, Roger M ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

First dorsal interosseus; Metabolites; Muscle fatigue; Task failure

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; METABOLISM; METABOLITES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; LINEAR RELATION; MOTOR NEURONS; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE FATIGUES; MUSCLE FORCE; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAM; SURFACE EMG;

MUSCLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77953511014     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0094     Document Type: Article

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