Neural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificity
We accomplish activities of daily living through a combination of or isolated isometric, shortening (concentric), lengthening (eccentric) contractions regarded as fundamental patterns of muscle activation. It has been widely recognized that a unique neural strategy may control lengthening contractio...
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| author | Hirofumi Sekiguchi Kimitaka Nakazawa Tibor Hortobágyi |
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| description | We accomplish activities of daily living through a combination of or isolated isometric, shortening (concentric), lengthening (eccentric) contractions regarded as fundamental patterns of muscle activation. It has been widely recognized that a unique neural strategy may control lengthening contractions but it is still unclear if this neural strategy is uniform across muscles. Here we review evidence for task-specific differences in neural control of muscle lengthening and shortening as indexed by surface electromyographic activity, corticospinal excitability, anatomical properties, and motor unit behavior. The emerging hypothesis is that the neural control of task-specificity associated with muscle lengthening and shortening may not be uniform across all healthy human muscles. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-623c6e33de7c48058b227e0d7590990b2022-12-21T18:41:38ZengJapanese Society of Physical Fitness and Sports MedicineJournal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine2186-81312186-81232013-06-012219120110.7600/jpfsm.2.191jpfsmNeural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificityHirofumi Sekiguchi0Kimitaka Nakazawa1Tibor Hortobágyi2Sports Management Program, Faculty of Business and Information Sciences, Jobu UniversityDepartment of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of TokyoCenter for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center GroningenWe accomplish activities of daily living through a combination of or isolated isometric, shortening (concentric), lengthening (eccentric) contractions regarded as fundamental patterns of muscle activation. It has been widely recognized that a unique neural strategy may control lengthening contractions but it is still unclear if this neural strategy is uniform across muscles. Here we review evidence for task-specific differences in neural control of muscle lengthening and shortening as indexed by surface electromyographic activity, corticospinal excitability, anatomical properties, and motor unit behavior. The emerging hypothesis is that the neural control of task-specificity associated with muscle lengthening and shortening may not be uniform across all healthy human muscles.https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpfsm/2/2/2_191/_pdf/-char/enlengthening contractioncorticospinal excitabilityinput-output relationshipneural control strategymuscle-specificity |
| spellingShingle | Hirofumi Sekiguchi Kimitaka Nakazawa Tibor Hortobágyi Neural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificity Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine lengthening contraction corticospinal excitability input-output relationship neural control strategy muscle-specificity |
| title | Neural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificity |
| title_full | Neural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificity |
| title_fullStr | Neural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificity |
| title_short | Neural control of muscle lengthening: Task- and muscle-specificity |
| title_sort | neural control of muscle lengthening task and muscle specificity |
| topic | lengthening contraction corticospinal excitability input-output relationship neural control strategy muscle-specificity |
| url | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpfsm/2/2/2_191/_pdf/-char/en |
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