Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2013
Fatiguing handgrip exercise alters maximal force-generating capacity of plantar-flexors.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.
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25 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Duration of Non-Local Muscle Fatigue Effects.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2024Trial
- Unilateral Quadriceps Fatigue Induces Greater Impairments of Ipsilateral versus Contralateral Elbow Flexors and Plantar Flexors Performance in Physically Active Young Adults.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2021Trial
- Acute bouts of upper and lower body static and dynamic stretching increase non-local joint range of motion.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Trial
- Examination of sex differences in fatigability, muscle oxygenation, and neuromuscular responses during low-intensity isometric handgrip exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Non-local Muscle Fatigue in Young and Middle-Aged Women following Fast-Paced Walking.International journal of exercise science · 2026Article
- Finger tapping at maximal speed evokes crossover fatigability in the other hand.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Effects of Physical and Mental Fatigue on Time Perception.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Effect of a Mental Task Versus Unilateral Physical Fatigue on Non-Local Muscle Fatigue in Recreationally Active Young Adults.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2023Article
- Lack of Evidence for Crossover Fatigue with Plantar Flexor Muscles.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2022Article
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- Is there an intermuscular relationship in voluntary activation capacities and contractile kinetics?European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation improves fatigue performance of the treated and contralateral knee extensors.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Article
- Contralateral fatigue during severe-intensity single-leg exercise: influence of acute acetaminophen ingestion.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2019Article
- Is the cross-over effect of a unilateral high-intensity leg extension influenced by the sex of the participants?Biology of sex differences · 2018Article
- Sex comparisons of non-local muscle fatigue in human elbow flexors and knee extensors.Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal interactions · 2018Article
- Slower but not faster unilateral fatiguing knee extensions alter contralateral limb performance without impairment of maximal torque output.European journal of applied physiology · 2017Article
- Bilateral Knee Extensor Fatigue Modulates Force and Responsiveness of the Corticospinal Pathway in the Non-fatigued, Dominant Elbow Flexors.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
- Effect of unilateral knee extensor fatigue on force and balance of the contralateral limb.European journal of applied physiology · 2015Article
- Non-local muscle fatigue: effects and possible mechanisms.European journal of applied physiology · 2015Review
- Effects of fatiguing unilateral plantar flexions on corticospinal and transcallosal inhibition in the primary motor hand area.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Exercise-induced fatigue causes changes within the central nervous system that decrease force production capacity in fatigued muscles. The impact on unrelated, non-exercised muscle performance is still unclear. The primary aim of this study was to examine the impact of a bilateral forearm muscle contraction on the motor function of the distal and unrelated ankle plantar-flexor muscles. The secondary aim was to compare the impact of maximal and submaximal forearm contractions on the non-fatigued ankle plantar-flexor muscles. Maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) of the forearm and ankle plantar-flexor muscles as well as voluntary activation (VA) and twitch torque of the ankle plantar-flexor muscles were assessed pre-fatigue and throughout a 10-min recovery period. Maximal (100 % MVC) and submaximal (30 % MVC) sustained isometric handgrip contractions caused a decreased handgrip MVC (to 49.3 ± 15.4 and 45.4 ± 11.4 % of the initial MVC for maximal and submaximal contraction, respectively) that remained throughout the 10-min recovery period. The fatigue protocols also caused a decreased ankle plantar-flexor MVC (to 77 ± 8.3 and 92.4 ± 6.2 % of pre-fatigue MVC for maximal and submaximal contraction, respectively) and VA (to 84.3 ± 15.7 and 97.7 ± 16.1 % of pre-fatigue VA for maximal and submaximal contraction, respectively). These results suggest central fatigue created by the fatiguing handgrip contraction translated to the performance of the non-exercised ankle muscles. Our results also show that the maximal fatigue protocol affected ankle plantar-flexor MVC and VA more severely than the submaximal protocol, highlighting the task-specificity of neuromuscular fatigue.
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