Chapter 1 Motor unit number estimations (MUNEs): past, present and future

Abstract

Publisher This chapter provides an overview on the physiological technique for estimating the number of motor units (MUs) in the extensor digitorum brevis (EDB) muscle. The average size of the first several surface-detected motor unit potentials (S-MUAPs) associated with electrical stimulation of their associated motor nerve fibers (MNFs). It discusses that an estimate of the number of EDB MUs was derived by division of the negative peak …

Authors

Brown WF

Book title

Motor Unit Number Estimation (MUNE) and Quantitative EMG - Selected Presentations from the Second International Symposium on MUNE and QEMG, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 18–20 August 2006