title: Number of motor units in human abductor hallucis.
abstract: Motor unit number was estimated for the human abductor hallucis (AH) muscle in 11 subjects by counting the number of increments in surface electromyographic responses to progressive increases in current-pulse amplitude applied to the muscle-nerve. The average motor unit count for AH (43) was substantially smaller than that estimated for other human muscles. Consequently, motor unit activity should be readily recordable up to high forces in AH, making it well suited for studies of recruitment and rate coding.
authors: Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210093, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0093, USA.
authors: Richard K
authors: RK
authors: Johns
authors: Andrew J
authors: AJ
authors: Fuglevand
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