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Citation:

B. Hannaford, G. Cheron, L. Stark, 'The Effects of Applied Vibration on the Tri-Phasic EMG Pattern in Neurologically Ballistic Head Movements,' Experimental Neurology, vol. 88, pp. 447-460, 1985.

Abstract

Vibration of agonist or antagonist muscle tendon produced changes in the triphasic electromyographic pattern of neck muscles; EMG signals were rectified, averaged, and also integrated by planimetry. The triphasic EMG envelopes obtained during fast horizontal head rotation showed unmodified early agonist pulse, the action pulse (PA), under all conditions; increased antagonist pulse, the braking pulse (PB), only with antagonist muscle vibration; and increase of late agonist pulse, the clamping pulse (PC), only with agonist muscle vibration. Vibration experiments can be considered as a model for studying interactions between central and peripheral effects on control of normal movements.

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