Effects of fatigue on motor unit firing rate versus recruitment threshold relationships

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-109

  Stock, Matt S ^a   Beck, Travis W ^a   Defreitas, Jason M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Electromyography; Force; Isometric; Motor control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FATIGUE; FIRING RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOMETRICS; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84555195086     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.22266     Document Type: Article

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