Mechanisms of fatigue and task failure induced by sustained submaximal contractions

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1243-1251

  Neyroud, Daria ^a   Maffiuletti, Nicola A ^b   Kayser, Bengt ^a   Place, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

electrical stimulation; Endurance time; maximal voluntary contraction; mwave; twitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862762770     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318245cc4d     Document Type: Article

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