The Effects of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage on Motor Unit Firing

Author

Sherman Jones, University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

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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