Motor unit number estimates in masters runners: Use it or lose it?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1644-1650

  Power, Geoffrey A ^a   Dalton, Brian H ^a   Behm, David G ^b   Vandervoort, Anthony A ^a   Doherty, Timothy J ^a   Rice, Charles L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AGING; EMG; MASTER ATHLETES; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RUNNING;

EID: 77956044072     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181d6f9e9     Document Type: Article

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