Reproducibility of muscle fibre conduction velocity during linearly increasing force contractions |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome ‘Foro Italico’, Rome, Italy;2. Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ London, UK;1. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom;2. Water Research Group, School of Environmental Sciences and Development, Northwest University, Potchefstroom, South Africa;1. Department of Neurobiology, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poland;2. Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Canada;3. Division of Biochemistry, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poland;1. Discipline of Anatomy & Histology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health, The University of Sydney, Australia;2. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium;3. Discipline of Exercise & Sports Science, Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health, The University of Sydney, Australia;1. Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden;2. Department of Health and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Unit of Physiotherapy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden;3. Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, SDU Muscle Research Cluster (SMRC), University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark;1. Rehabilitation Research Laboratory 2rLab, Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Manno, Switzerland;2. Criams-Sport Medicine Centre Voghera, University of Pavia, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Muscle fibre conduction velocity (MFCV) is a basic physiological parameter biophysically related to the diameter of muscle fibres and properties of the sarcolemma. The aim of this study was to assess the intersession reproducibility of the relation between voluntary force and estimates of average muscle fibre conduction velocity (MFCV) from multichannel high-density surface electromyographic recordings (HDsEMG). Ten healthy men performed six linearly increasing isometric ankle dorsiflexions on two separate experimental sessions, 4 weeks apart. Each session involved the recordings of voluntary force during maximal isometric (MViF) and submaximal ramp contractions at 35–50–70% of MViF. Concurrently, the HDsEMG activity was detected from the tibialis anterior muscle and MFCV estimates were derived in 250-ms epochs. Absolute and relative reproducibility of MFCV initial value (intercept) and rate of change (regression slope) as a function of force were assessed by within-subject coefficient of correlation (CVw) and with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). MFCV was positively correlated with voluntary force (R2 = 0.75 ± 0.12) in all individuals and test conditions (P < 0.001). Average CVw for MFCV intercept and slope were of 2.6 ± 2.0% and 11.9 ± 3.2% and ICC values of 0.96 and 0.94, respectively.Overall, MFCV regression coefficients showed a high degree of intersession reproducibility in both absolute and relative terms. These results may have important practical implications in the tracking of training-induced neuromuscular changes and/or in the monitoring of the progress of neuromuscular disorders when a full sEMG signal decomposition is problematic or not possible. |
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| Keywords: | Global EMG estimates Propagation velocity Linearly increasing force contractions Coefficient of variation Intraclass correlation coefficient |
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