Intra-rater reliability of motor unit number estimation and quantitative motor unit analysis in subjects with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 170-178

  Ives, Colleen T ^a   Doherty, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Decomposition based quantitative electromyography (DQEMG); Decomposition enhanced spike triggered averaging (DE STA); Motor unit number estimation (MUNE); Reliability; Trapezius muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS); DECOMPOSITION-BASED QUANTITATIVE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (DQEMG); DECOMPOSITION-ENHANCED SPIKE-TRIGGERED AVERAGING (DE-STA); MOTOR UNIT NUMBER ESTIMATION (MUNE); RELIABILITY; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SUPERFICIAL BACK MUSCLES;

EID: 84890142392     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.04.345     Document Type: Article

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