Relationships between timing of muscle excitation and impaired motor performance during cyclical lower extremity movement in post-stroke hemiplegia.

@article{Kautz1998RelationshipsBT,
  title={Relationships between timing of muscle excitation and impaired motor performance during cyclical lower extremity movement in post-stroke hemiplegia.},
  author={Steven A. Kautz and David Brown},
  journal={Brain : a journal of neurology},
  year={1998},
  volume={121 ( Pt 3)},
  pages={
          515-26
        }
}

• Steven A. Kautz, David Brown
• Published in Brain : a journal of neurology 1998

We used an ergometer pedalling paradigm to relate abnormalities in the timing of muscle excitation to the impaired ability to perform mechanical work in the plegic lower limbs of persons with hemiplegia. The EMGs of seven leg muscles and pedal forces were measured bilaterally during pedalling for 15 persons with hemiplegia and 12 neurologically intact age-matched control subjects. Subjects were asked to pedal at a moderate workload (135 J) and cadence (40 r.p.m.). While intersubject variability… CONTINUE READING

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