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Muscle conduction velocity, surface electromyography variables, and echo intensity during concentric and eccentric fatigue
Ist Teil von
Muscle & nerve, 2014-03, Vol.49 (3), p.389-397
Ort / Verlag
United States: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Wiley Blackwell Single Titles
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Concentric (CON) and eccentric (ECC) contractions may involve different mechanisms related to changes in sarcolemma status and the consequent alteration of action potential transmission along muscle fibers. Methods: Muscle conduction velocity (CV), surface electromyography signal (sEMG), muscle quality, and blood lactate concentrations were analyzed during CON and ECC actions. Results: Compared with ECC, the CON protocol resulted in greater muscle force losses, blood lactate concentrations, and changes in sEMG parameters. Similar reductions in CV were detected in both protocols. Higher echo intensity values were observed 2 days after ECC due to greater muscle damage. Conclusions: The effects of the muscle damage produced by ECC exercise on the transmission of action potentials along muscle fibers (measured as the CV) may be comparable with the effects of hydrogen accumulation produced by CON exercise (related to greater lactate concentrations), which causes greater force loss and change in other sEMG variables during CON than during ECC actions. Muscle Nerve 49:389–397, 2014