Fatigability and recovery of arm muscles with advanced age for dynamic and isometric contractions

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 259-268

  Yoon, Tejin ^a   Schlinder Delap, Bonnie ^a   Hunter, Sandra K ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Muscle fatigue; Peripheral fatigue; Supraspinal fatigue; Time to task failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIORADIALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB; MALE; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUPERIMPOSED TWITCH; SUPRASPINAL FATIGUE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872774897     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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