• DocumentCode
    1730134
  • Title

    Myoelectric manifestations of muscle fatigue in electrically stimulated lumbar muscles

  • Author

    Owens, D. ; Merletti, R. ; Knaflitz, M. ; De Luca, Carlo J.

  • Author_Institution
    Neuromuscular Res. Center, Boston Univ., MA, USA
  • fYear
    1989
  • Firstpage
    1041
  • Abstract
    The myoelectric responses from 156 electrically stimulated contractions in two different lumbar muscles were examined. A method for assessing the invariance of the motor unit pool during the contraction was applied, and fatigue was evaluated. The assumption that fast-fatiguing glycolitic fibers have larger diameters than slow-fatiguing oxidative fibers is not always able to explain the results. It is suggested that this assumption may not always be true in lumbar muscles
  • Keywords
    bioelectric potentials; muscle; electrically stimulated lumbar muscles; fast-fatiguing glycolitic fibers; motor unit pool invariance; muscle fatigue; myoelectric responses; slow-fatiguing oxidative fibers; Central nervous system; Centralized control; Electrical stimulation; Electrodes; Fatigue; Muscles; Neuromuscular; Pain; Recruitment; Traction motors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96076
  • Filename
    96076