Discharge Characteristics of Biceps Brachii Motor Units at 5 Recruitment When Older Adults Sustained an Isometric Contraction
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Discharge characteristics of biceps brachii motor units at recruitment when older adults sustained an isometric contraction.
The purpose of this study was to compare the discharge characteristics of motor units recruited during an isometric contraction that was sustained with the elbow flexor muscles by older adults at target forces that were less than the recruitment threshold force of each isolated motor unit. The discharge times of 27 single motor units were recorded from the biceps brachii in 11 old adults (78.8 ...
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