Extra Forces induced by wide-pulse, high-frequency electrical stimulation: Occurrence, magnitude, variability and underlying mechanisms

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1400-1412

  Wegrzyk, Jennifer ^a   Fouré, Alexandre ^a   Vilmen, Christophe ^a   Ghattas, Badih ^b   Maffiuletti, Nicola A ^c   Mattei, Jean Pierre ^a,d   Place, Nicolas ^e   Bendahan, David ^a   Gondin, Julien ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^d HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EMG; Extra Forces; NMES; Responder; Triceps surae

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE; VISUAL FEEDBACK; WARM UP; WIDE PULSE HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INNERVATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84930532629     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.10.001     Document Type: Article

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