Honors Theses
Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Dwight Waddell
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
Exercise induced muscle damage is commonly seen in individuals who are unaccustomed to exercise above a particular activity level. This temporary condition is marked by damage to individual sarcomeres, delayed onset muscle soreness, and localized edema. The analyzed data is decomposed electromyography (dEMG) data from the University of Oklahoma's Department of Health and Exercise Science. There, it was shown that following exercise-induced muscle damage, more slow motor units are recruited for force production. For this thesis, MATLAB ® was used to calculate the synchronization and coherence of 378 motor unit pairs. It was found that following exercise-induced muscle damage, both synchronization and coherence decreased.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Sherman, "The Effects of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage on Motor Unit Firing" (2016). Honors Theses. 860.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/860
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