Assessment of skeletal muscle contractile properties by radial displacement: the case for tensiomyography

LJ Macgregor, AM Hunter, C Orizio, MM Fairweather… - Sports Medicine, 2018 - Springer
Skeletal muscle operates as a near-constant volume system; as such muscle shortening
during contraction is transversely linked to radial deformation. Therefore, to assess …

Tensiomyography derived parameters reflect skeletal muscle architectural adaptations following 6-weeks of lower body resistance training

MT Wilson, AMF Ryan, SR Vallance… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Measurement of muscle specific contractile properties in response to resistance training
(RT) can provide practitioners valuable information regarding physiological status of …

Estimation of contractile parameters of successive twitches in unfused tetanic contractions of single motor units–A proof-of-concept study using ultrafast ultrasound …

R Rohlén, R Raikova, E Stålberg, C Grönlund - … of Electromyography and …, 2022 - Elsevier
During a voluntary contraction, motor units (MUs) fire a train of action potentials, causing
summation of the twitch forces, resulting in fused or unfused tetanus. Twitches have been …

Alterations in synergistic muscle activation impact fluctuations in net force.

M Shinohara, Y Yoshitake, M Kouzaki - Medicine and science in …, 2009 - europepmc.org
Net muscle force recorded during voluntary contractions with multiple agonist muscles is the
summated result of individual muscle forces. The purpose of this article is to synthesize …

Novel mechanomyogram/electromyogram hybrid transducer measurements reflect muscle strength during dynamic exercise—pedaling of recumbent bicycle—

S Fukuhara, S Watanabe, H Oka - Advanced Biomedical Engineering, 2018 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Simultaneous measurements of mechanomyogram (MMG) and electromyogram (EMG) may
be useful for accurate evaluation of skeletal muscle contraction. However, unlike the EMG …

Basic Characteristics of Submental Mechanomyography and Electromyography Measured Simultaneously During Tongue Lift Using a Novel Muscle Function …

S Fukuhara, M Ikeno, H Oka - Journal of Medical and Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Methods and instruments that allow the simple and quantitative assessment of the
swallowing function are needed. This study develops a device for the simultaneous …

The skin acts to maintain muscle shear modulus

Y Yoshitake, N Miyamoto, K Taniguchi… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2016 - Elsevier
It is not clear how the tissues covering the skeletal muscles affect the muscles' mechanical
properties. The main purpose of this study was to examine changes in muscle shear …

Influence of age on force and re-lengthening dynamics after tetanic stimulation withdrawal in the tibialis anterior muscle

M Cogliati, A Cudicio, M Benedini, HV Cabral… - European journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose During alternate movements across a joint, the changeover from one direction of
rotation to the opposite may be influenced by the delay and rate of tension reduction and the …

Experimental muscle pain increases normalized variability of multidirectional forces during isometric contractions

SE Salomoni, T Graven-Nielsen - European journal of applied physiology, 2012 - Springer
Pain elicits complex adaptations of motor strategy, leading to impairments in the generation
and control of steady forces, which depend on muscle architecture. The present study used …

Oscillations in motor unit discharge are reflected in the low-frequency component of rectified surface EMG and the rate of change in force

Y Yoshitake, M Shinohara - Experimental brain research, 2013 - Springer
Common drive to a motor unit (MU) pool manifests as low-frequency oscillations in MU
discharge rate, producing fluctuations in muscle force. The aim of the study was to examine …