ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2017
Motor Unit Activity during Fatiguing Isometric Muscle Contraction in Hemispheric Stroke Survivors.
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- Modified motor unit properties in residual muscle following transtibial amputation.Journal of neural engineering · 2024Article
- Acute adaptation of central and peripheral motor unit features to exercise-induced fatigue differs with concentric and eccentric loading.Experimental physiology · 2023Article
- Imbalanced Subthreshold Currents Following Sepsis and Chemotherapy: A Shared Mechanism Offering a New Therapeutic Target?The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2022Article
- A new visual feedback-based system for the assessment of pinch force, endurance, accuracy and precision. A test-retest reliability study.Hand therapy · 2021Article
- Impaired Firing Behavior of Individually Tracked Paretic Motor Units During Fatiguing Contractions of the Dorsiflexors and Functional Implications Post Stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- Analysis and Biophysics of Surface EMG for Physiotherapists and Kinesiologists: Toward a Common Language With Rehabilitation Engineers.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- The Relationship Between Blood Flow and Motor Unit Firing Rates in Response to Fatiguing Exercise Post-stroke.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Enhanced muscle weakness is commonly experienced following stroke and may be accompanied by increased susceptibility to fatigue. To examine the contributions of central and peripheral factors to isometric muscle fatigue in stroke survivors, this study investigates changes in motor unit (MU) mean firing rate, and action potential duration during, and directly following, a sustained submaximal fatiguing contraction at 30% maximum voluntary contraction (MVC). A series of short contractions of the first dorsal interosseous muscle were performed pre- and post-fatigue at 20% MVC, and again following a 10-min recovery period, by 12 chronic stroke survivors. Individual MU firing times were extracted using surface EMG decomposition and used to obtain the spike-triggered average MU action potential waveforms. During the sustained fatiguing contraction, the mean rate of change in firing rate across all detected MUs was greater on the affected side (-0.02 ± 0.03 Hz/s) than on the less-affected side (-0.004 ± 0.003 Hz/s,
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