Despite flourishing interest in the topic of fatigue—as indicated by the many presentations
on fatigue at the 2015 annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine …

Movement is accomplished by the controlled activation of motor unit populations. Our
understanding of motor unit physiology has been derived from experimental work on the …

This brief review discusses the methods used to estimate the neural drive to muscles from
the surface electromyogram (EMG). Surface EMG has been classically used to infer the …

Key points Classic motor unit (MU) recording and analysis methods do not allow the same
MUs to be tracked across different experimental sessions, and therefore, there is limited …

The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between linear transformations of motor
unit discharge rates and muscle force. Intramuscular (wire electrodes) and high‐density …

High-density surface electromyography (HDsEMG) can be used to measure the spatial
distribution of electrical muscle activity over the skin. As this distribution is associated with …

Advances in technology have ushered in a new era in the measurement and interpretation
of surface-recorded electromyographic (EMG) signals. These developments have included …

Surface electromyographic (EMG) signal amplitude is typically used to compare the neural
drive to muscles. We experimentally investigated this association by studying the motor unit …

Neural control of synergist muscles is not well understood. Presumably, each muscle in a
synergistic group receives some unique neural drive and some drive that is also shared in …

In a broad view, fatigue is used to indicate a degree of weariness. On a muscular level,
fatigue posits the reduced capacity of muscle fibres to produce force, even in the presence of …