Nature

Motor unit behavior of lumbar multifidus during a forward trunk bending task performed under different speeds and loads in asymptomatic participants

Background The lumbar multifidus (LM) plays a key role in static and dynamic stability; however, studies of LM motor unit behavior have yet to be extensively investigated. This study aimed to assess ...
Medical Xpress

Motor units in the spinal cord might be far more flexible than we thought

Researchers at Columbia University have recently carried out a study aimed at investigating whether these two widely accepted ideas about the neural processes behind voluntary movements are reliable.
Nature

Motor unit number estimation of the tibialis anterior muscle in spinal cord injury

To investigate the number of motor units from the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle in normal subject and its change after SCI. Motor unit number estimation (MUNE) in 45 control subjects (35 young ...