Motor unit discharge rates of the anconeus muscle during high-velocity elbow extensions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-113

  Harwood, B ^a   Davidson, A W ^a   Rice, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elbow extensor; Human; Movement; Neuromuscular

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TORQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78951485432     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2463-4     Document Type: Article

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