The effects of accumulated muscle fatigue on the mechanomyographic waveform: implications for injury prediction

Autor: Christian Than, J. M. M. Brown, Danijel Tosovic
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: European Journal of Applied Physiology. 116:1485-1494
ISSN: 1439-6327
1439-6319
Popis: Muscle fatigue has been identified as a risk factor for spontaneous muscle injuries in sport. However, few studies have investigated the accumulated effects of muscle fatigue on human muscle contractile properties. This study aimed to determine whether repeated bouts of exercise inducing acute fatigue leads to longer-term fatigue-related changes in muscle contractile properties. Maximum voluntary contraction (MVC), electromyographic (EMG) and mechanomyographic (MMG) measures were recorded in the biceps brachii of 11 participants for 13 days, before and after a maximally fatiguing exercise protocol. The exercise protocol involved participants repetitively lifting a weight (concentric contractions only) equal to 40 % MVC, until failure. A significant (p
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