Rehabilitation of muscle function. Part 1.
This article, which develops the concepts introduced in the authors' paper in last week's edition (1), is the first of two which review and summarise recent studies describing techniques to test the hypothesis that uniform frequency stimulation of skeletal muscle deprives the muscle of the type of signals that are necessary for rapid, appropriate and effective adaptation. Next week, clinical trials which have tested this hypothesis will be described, and the implications of the results for nurses involved in rehabilitation work discussed; Part 1 sets out the methodology of extracting the firing patterns of single motor units from a fatiguing muscle.
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D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006801:Humans; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D012046:Rehabilitation