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• Motor unit recruitment — is the progressive activation of a muscle by successive recruitment of contractile units (motor units) to accomplish increasing gradations of contractile strength. A motor unit consists of one motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it… …   Wikipedia

• Motor unit number estimation — (MUNE) is a technique that uses electromyography to estimate the number of motor units in a muscle. Principles A motor unit consists of one alpha motoneuron and all the muscle fibres it innervates. Muscles differ in the number of motor units that …   Wikipedia

• Motor unit plasticity — The motor unit consists of a voluntary alpha motoneuron and all of the collective muscle fibers that it controls, known as the effector muscle. The alpha motoneuron communicates with acetylcholine receptors on the motor end plate of the effector… …   Wikipedia

• Motor unit — ”A motor unit is a single α motor neuron and all of the corresponding muscle fibers it innervates; all of these fibers will be of the same type (either fast twitch or slow twitch). When a motor unit is activated, all of its fibers contract.… …   Wikipedia

• recruitment interval — the inverse of the recruitment frequency; in a recruitment pattern, the length of time between two consecutive discharges of a given motor unit when an additional motor unit is recruited …   Medical dictionary

• recruitment frequency — in a recruitment pattern, the firing rate of one motor unit action potential at the time that a different potential first appears; cf. recruitment interval …   Medical dictionary

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• Skeletal muscle — is a type of striated muscle, which usually attaches to tendons. Skeletal muscles are used to create movement, by applying force to bones and joints; via contraction. They generally contract voluntarily (via somatic nerve stimulation), although… …   Wikipedia

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• Electromyography — Not to be confused with Electronystagmography (ENG), Electrocardiography (ECG), or Electroencephalography (EEG). Electromyography Intervention ICD 9 CM 93.08 MeSH …   Wikipedia

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