Motor Unit Firing Behaviour of Soleus Muscle in Isometric and Dynamic Contractions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kallio, Jouni ^a   Søgaard, Karen ^b   Avela, Janne ^a   Komi, Paavo V ^a   Selänne, Harri ^c   Linnamo, Vesa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c LIKES RESEARCH CENTER FOR SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PLANTAR FLEXION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; MOTONEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TORQUE;

ADULT; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TORQUE;

EID: 84873548723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053425     Document Type: Article

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