Comparing electromyographic and mechanomyographic frequency-based fatigue thresholds to critical torque during isometric forearm flexion

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-72

  Hendrix, C Russell ^a   Housh, Terry J ^b   Camic, Clayton L ^b   Zuniga, Jorge M ^b   Johnson, Glen O ^b   Schmidt, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

EMG MPF fatigue threshold (EMG MPFFT); Mean power frequency (MPF); Mechanomyographic (MMG) MPFFT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649500268     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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