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ArticleScientific reports2025

Changes in torque complexity with fatigue are related to motor unit behaviour.

João Sá Gomes, João Henriques Oliveira, Philipp Bauer, Pedro Pezarat-Correia, João R Vaz

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João Sá GomesEgas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CiiEM), Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, Quinta da Granja, 2829-511, Monte da Caparica, Portugal.
João Henriques OliveiraNeuromuscular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Philipp BauerEgas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CiiEM), Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, Quinta da Granja, 2829-511, Monte da Caparica, Portugal.
Pedro Pezarat-CorreiaEgas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CiiEM), Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, Quinta da Granja, 2829-511, Monte da Caparica, Portugal.
João R VazEgas Moniz Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CiiEM), Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, Quinta da Granja, 2829-511, Monte da Caparica, Portugal. jvaz@egasmoniz.edu.pt.

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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia 2021.08271.BDFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia 2022.10952.BDFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UI/BD/154379/2023Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UIDB/00447/2020
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Abstract

Physiological complexity is believed to reflect a system's adaptability to environmental challenges having been proposed as an indirect indicator of the functional capacity of the neuromuscular system. This study aimed to investigate the association between torque complexity's changes with neuromuscular fatigue and motor unit parameters. Twenty-one healthy and young adults visited the laboratory on one occasion. Knee extension maximum voluntary isometric contractions and isometric contractions at 30% of maximum were collected at baseline and immediately after a fatiguing knee extension protocol, which consisted of a series of concentric and eccentric knee extensions at 90°/s until exhaustion. Torque signals were sampled continuously, and torque complexity was assessed through an entropy measure. Motor unit-related parameters were extracted from the submaximal trials and further analysed. Our findings demonstrate that torque complexity's alteration pre-to-post neuromuscular fatigue is highly correlated with vastus lateralis and medialis average firing rate (r = - 0.618 and r = - 0.659, respectively) and peak motor unit action potential amplitude (r

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Motor NeuronsMuscle FatigueMuscle, SkeletalTorqueAction PotentialsAdultElectromyographyFemaleHumansIsometric ContractionKneeMaleYoung AdultComplexityEntropyMotor controlNeuromuscular fatigueNonlinear analysis

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PMCPMC12000463

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