Background Foot drop is a common gait impairment after stroke. Functional electrical
stimulation (FES) of the ankle dorsiflexor muscles during the swing phase of gait can help …

Background Rapid muscle fatigue during functional electrical stimulation (FES)-evoked
muscle contractions in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) is a significant limitation to …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) results in widespread variation in muscle function. Review of motor
unit data shows that changes in the amount and balance of excitatory and inhibitory inputs …

The catchlike property of skeletal muscle is the force augmentation produced by the
inclusion of an initial, brief, high‐frequency burst of two to four pulses at the start of a …

An improved electric weapon immobilizes a target by conducting a current through an
electrode and through the target. The weapon includes a circuit that outputs a pulse pattern …

Weakness is a characteristic of muscles influenced by the postpolio syndrome (PPS),
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and spinal cord injury (SCI). The strength deficits relate …

Muscles paralyzed by chronic (> 1 yr) spinal cord injury fatigue readily. Our aim was to
evaluate whether the fatigability of paralyzed thenar muscles (n= 10) could be reduced by …

Objective. Investigation of the firing behavior of motor units (MUs) provides essential
neuromuscular control information because MUs are the smallest organizational component …

Correlations between physiological, clinical and self-reported assessments of spasticity are
often weak. Our aims were to quantify functional, self-reported and physiological indices of …

Kebaetse MB, Lee SC, Johnston TE, Binder-Macleod SA. Strategies that improve paralyzed
human quadriceps femoris muscle performance during repetitive, nonisometric contractions …