TY - JOUR
T1 - Increasing corticospinal excitability in the antagonist muscle during muscle relaxation with a tracking task
AU - Yoshida, Naoshin
AU - Yamaguchi, Tomofumi
AU - Saitou, Kei
AU - Tanabe, Shigeo
AU - Sugawara, Kenichi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/3/1
Y1 - 2015/3/1
N2 - The present study aimed to investigate corticospinal excitability changes during muscle relaxation with a tracking task. The motor-evoked potential, which was elicited from the flexor carpi radialis (agonist) and extensor carpi radialis (antagonist) muscles, was analyzed in terms of both the relaxation velocity and phase. Our results suggest that increasing corticospinal excitability in the antagonist muscle plays an important role in controlling the relaxation of the agonist muscle during gradual relaxation with a tracking task.
AB - The present study aimed to investigate corticospinal excitability changes during muscle relaxation with a tracking task. The motor-evoked potential, which was elicited from the flexor carpi radialis (agonist) and extensor carpi radialis (antagonist) muscles, was analyzed in terms of both the relaxation velocity and phase. Our results suggest that increasing corticospinal excitability in the antagonist muscle plays an important role in controlling the relaxation of the agonist muscle during gradual relaxation with a tracking task.
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U2 - 10.3109/08990220.2014.958215
DO - 10.3109/08990220.2014.958215
M3 - Article
C2 - 25994016
AN - SCOPUS:84929762149
VL - 32
SP - 39
EP - 43
JO - Somatosensory Research
JF - Somatosensory Research
SN - 0899-0220
IS - 1
ER -