TY - JOUR
T1 - Methods for estimating the numbers of motor units in human muscles
AU - Doherty, Timothy
AU - Simmons, Zachary
AU - O'Connell, Barbara
AU - Felice, Kevin J.
AU - Conwit, Robin
AU - Chan, K. Ming
AU - Komori, Tetsuo
AU - Brown, Timothy
AU - Stashuk, Daniel W.
AU - Brown, William F.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - After the introduction by A. J. McComas of the original method for estimating the number of motor units based on manual incremental stimulation of a motor nerve, several new techniques have been developed, designed to correct for some of the errors inherent in the original technique. These methods incorporate algorithms to adjust for alternation and, to a greater or lesser extent, automate the methods, rendering the techniques less subject to operator bias and various physiological and technical errors. This review explores the advantages and drawbacks in the multiple-point stimulation (MPS), spike-triggered averaging (STA), and decomposition-enhanced STA techniques, illustrates some of the current applications of the techniques, and explores some tantalizing prospects for new studies of motor-unit physiology in the future.
AB - After the introduction by A. J. McComas of the original method for estimating the number of motor units based on manual incremental stimulation of a motor nerve, several new techniques have been developed, designed to correct for some of the errors inherent in the original technique. These methods incorporate algorithms to adjust for alternation and, to a greater or lesser extent, automate the methods, rendering the techniques less subject to operator bias and various physiological and technical errors. This review explores the advantages and drawbacks in the multiple-point stimulation (MPS), spike-triggered averaging (STA), and decomposition-enhanced STA techniques, illustrates some of the current applications of the techniques, and explores some tantalizing prospects for new studies of motor-unit physiology in the future.
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U2 - 10.1097/00004691-199511000-00004
DO - 10.1097/00004691-199511000-00004
M3 - Article
C2 - 8600172
AN - SCOPUS:0028811474
SN - 0736-0258
VL - 12
SP - 565
EP - 584
JO - Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
IS - 6
ER -