Accessing the neural drive to muscle and translation to neurorehabilitation technologies

IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-14

  Farina, Dario ^a   Negro, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromyography (EMG); motor control; motor neuron; motor unit; neurorehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; FORCE GENERATION; IN-VIVO; LINEAR TRANSMISSION; LOW-PASS FILTERING; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR FUNCTION; MOTOR NEURONS; MOTOR UNIT; NEURAL CODING; NEURAL CONTROL; NEURAL SIGNALS; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROREHABILITATION; REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY; SYNAPTIC INPUT;

BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REHABILITATION; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROSCIENCES; REHABILITATION;

EID: 84870984024     PISSN: 19373333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RBME.2012.2183586     Document Type: Review

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