Recruitment of motor units in two fascicles of the semispinalis cervicis muscle

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3078-3085

  Schomacher, Jochen ^a   Dideriksen, Jakob Lund ^a   Farina, Dario ^b   Falla, Deborah ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motoneurons; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMISPINALIS CERVICIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK MUSCLES; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861863734     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00953.2011     Document Type: Article

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