Recovery of central and peripheral neuromuscular fatigue after exercise

TJ Carroll, JL Taylor… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Sustained physical exercise leads to a reduced capacity to produce voluntary force that
typically outlasts the exercise bout. This “fatigue” can be due both to impaired muscle …

The biological basis of sex differences in athletic performance: consensus statement for the American College of Sports Medicine

SK Hunter, SS Angadi, A Bhargava… - … Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Biological sex is a primary determinant of athletic performance because of fundamental sex
differences in anatomy and physiology dictated by sex chromosomes and sex hormones …

TMS-induced silent periods: A review of methods and call for consistency

KE Hupfeld, CW Swanson, BW Fling… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-induced silent periods provide an in vivo measure
of human motor cortical inhibitory function. Cortical silent periods (cSP, also sometimes …

Performance fatigability: mechanisms and task specificity

SK Hunter - Cold spring harbor perspectives in …, 2018 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Performance fatigability is characterized as an acute decline in motor performance caused
by an exercise-induced reduction in force or power of the involved muscles. Multiple …

Spinal μ‐opioid receptor‐sensitive lower limb muscle afferents determine corticospinal responsiveness and promote central fatigue in upper limb muscle

SK Sidhu, JC Weavil, M Venturelli… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Key points We aimed to elucidate the role of group III/IV locomotor muscle afferents in the
development of central fatigue and the responsiveness of the corticospinal tract in relation to …

Neuromuscular adjustments of the quadriceps muscle after repeated cycling sprints

O Girard, DJ Bishop, S Racinais - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Purpose This study investigated the supraspinal processes of fatigue of the quadriceps
muscle in response to repeated cycling sprints. Methods Twelve active individuals …

Age differences in dynamic fatigability and variability of arm and leg muscles: Associations with physical function

J Senefeld, T Yoon, SK Hunter - Experimental gerontology, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction It is not known whether the age-related increase in fatigability of fast dynamic
contractions in lower limb muscles also occurs in upper limb muscles. We compared age …

Measurement of voluntary activation based on transcranial magnetic stimulation over the motor cortex

G Todd, JL Taylor, SC Gandevia - Journal of applied …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
This article reviews the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the motor cortex
to make estimates of the level of voluntary drive to muscles. The method, described in 2003 …

[HTML][HTML] Age-related deficits in voluntary activation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

V Rozand, CW Sundberg, SK Hunter… - Medicine and science in …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Whether there are age-related differences in neural drive during maximal effort contractions
is not clear. This review determined the effect of age on voluntary activation during maximal …

A comparison of different methods to analyse data collected during time-to-exhaustion tests

A Nicolò, M Sacchetti, M Girardi, A McCormick… - Sport Sciences for …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose Despite their widespread use in exercise physiology, time-to-exhaustion (TTE) tests
present an often-overlooked challenge to researchers, which is how to computationally deal …