Motor unit rate coding is severely impaired during forceful and fast muscular contractions in individuals post stroke

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2947-2954

  Chou, Li Wei ^a   Palmer, Jacqueline A ^b   Binder Macleod, Stuart ^b   Knight, Christopher A ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

CVA; Motor control; Muscle weakness and slowness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

CVA; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS AND SLOWNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARESIS; STROKE;

EID: 84879132903     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00615.2012     Document Type: Article

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