OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation and low-level laser therapy on neuromuscular parameters and health status in elderly subjects with knee osteoarthritis. DESIGN A randomized evaluator-blinded clinical trial. SUBJECTS Forty-five elderly women with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS Subjects were randomized into 1 of the following 3 intervention groups: el...

 Abstract— This study analytically addresses the problem of neuromuscular electrical stimulation for a planar, multi-layer, anisotropic model of a physiological tissue (referred to as volume conductor). Both conductivity and permittivity of the volume conductor are considered, including dispersive properties. The analytical solution is obtained in the two dimensional Fourier transform domain, ...

The presence of residual neuromuscular block is often difficult to assess. Muscle tension or electrical activity in response to motor nerve stimulation is of limited value without control responses. Neuromuscular transmission which was suppressed by tubocurarine in the in vitro preparation could be briefly restored by application to the nerve of two or more very closely spaced stimuli; this occ...

We studied the effect of chronic hypoxia on contractile properties and neuromuscular transmission in the developing rat diaphragm. We hypothesized that chronic hypoxia delays maturation of neuromuscular transmission. Phrenic nerve hemidiaphragm preparations were harvested from 3- to 26-day-old rats and littermates raised in 9.5% oxygen. Specific force, contraction time, and one-half relaxation ...

[Purpose] The aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the effects of whirlpool bath and neuromuscular electrical stimulation on complex regional pain syndrome. [Subjects and Methods] Sixty outpatients (30 per group) with complex regional pain syndrome participated. They received 15 treatment 5 days per week for 3 weeks. The outcome measures were the visual analogue scale for pai...

Mental exertion is known to impair endurance performance, but its effects on neuromuscular function remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that mental exertion reduces torque and muscle activation during intermittent maximal voluntary contractions of the knee extensors. Ten subjects performed in a randomized order three separate mental exertion conditions lasting 2...