Physiological Characteristics of the Tonic and Phasic Motor Units in Human Muscles
- 1 January 1973
- book chapter
- other
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Abstract
The alpha-motoneurones constitute an essential element in the system of motor control. The advance of neurophysiology led to the accumulation of abundant information about their properties and functions. There is a certain lack, however, in studies related to the problem of just how the alpha-motoneurones are operating under conditions of natural motor activity, under normal physiological conditions, and particularly in man, where we have an extremely high development of the system of motor control.Keywords
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