Control of motor unit firing during step-like increases in voluntary force

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Hu, Xiaogang ^a   Rymer, William Z ^a,b   Suresh, Nina L ^a  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firing rate; Motor unit; Onion skin; Rate saturation; Recruitment threshold

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT FIRING RATE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; ONION SKIN; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 84933678772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00721     Document Type: Article

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