✦ LIBER ✦
An assessment of motor unit discharge patterns in stroke patients using a surface electromyographic technique
✍ Scribed by Kun Yan; Jianjun Fang; Bhagwan T. Shahani
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-639X
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✦ Synopsis
Surface electromyographic (EMG) studies have been widely used to record muscle activity during human motor control studies. 2 However, during studies of single motor unit (SMU) discharge patterns in a clinical setting, a needle electrode has been the electrode of choice because of difficulty in isolating SMUs by a surface electrode in normal subjects.
In this report, we demonstrate that it is feasible to record SMUs in patients with upper motor neuron disorders using a surface EMG triggering technique. 9