Monthly Archives: October 2015

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Motor units in the human calf muscle: not as complicated as you think

This entry was posted in Motor Impairment Blog New finding Research methods and tagged medial gastrocnemius motor units muscle on October 15, 2015 by Martin Heroux

Have you ever been in a team environment where some people do the majority of the work while others site back, do nothing, yet still like to take the credit? My co-authors and I certainly have! In a recent study we noted that not all muscles of the human calf […]

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One session of strength training makes the spinal cord more excitable 6

This entry was posted in Motor Impairment Blog New finding Other and tagged plasticity spinal cord Strength training on October 1, 2015 by Jim Nuzzo

Strength training consists of repetitive high-force muscle contractions.  Strength training for four weeks improves maximal strength (Carroll et al. 2011).  These strength gains are primarily the consequence of changes in the nervous system and are not simply due to an increase in muscle size (e.g., Weier et al. 2012).  In […]

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