title: Monopolar surface electromyography: a better tool to assess motoneuron excitability upon passive muscle stretching.
abstract: Bipolar and monopolar surface electromyography (sEMG) are known procedures to measure the H-reflex. However, signal cancellation is a potential experimental problem of bipolar sEMG. The results of our study show that monopolar sEMG was the more sensitive procedure to differentiate motoneuron excitability at different passive muscle stretching speeds as it overcame signal cancellation.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan.
authors.forename: Hikmat
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hadoush
authors.forename: Yoshiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tobimatsu
authors.forename: Akiyoshi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nagatomi
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maejima