During an electrically elicited isometric contraction, the metabolic cost of attaining is greater than of maintaining force. Thus fatigue produced during such stimulation may not simply be a function of the force-time integral (FTI), as previously suggested. The goal of the present study was to evaluate fatigue produced in human medial gastrocnemius by intermittent, isometric electrical stimula...

Amann M, Calbet JA. Convective oxygen transport and fatigue. J Appl Physiol 104: 861–870, 2008. First published October 25, 2007; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01008.2007.— During exercise, fatigue is defined as a reversible reduction in forceor powergenerating capacity and can be elicited by “central” and/or “peripheral” mechanisms. During skeletal muscle contractions, both aspects of fatigue may d...

Small wireless trunk accelerometers have become a popular approach to unobtrusively quantify human locomotion and provide insights into both gait rehabilitation and sports performance. However, limited evidence exists as to which trunk accelerometry measures are suitable for the purpose of detecting movement compensations while running, and specifically in response to fatigue. The aim of this s...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is a commonly encountered symptom of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease, associated with significant psychological and functional morbidity and poor quality of life. Preliminary studies on the treatment of fatigue from the cancer and multiple sclerosis literature suggest that psychostimulants may be effective in reducing fatigue. OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of...

background : cancer is a disease which is identified by abnormal deformation of the cells. one of the common side effects of the cancer is fatigue that affects on patients’ life quality and leads to disability. exercise has an important role in improving these patients’ life quality and can be used as a complementary treatment during and after the cancer treatment. unfortunately, despite good e...

Strategies to achieve ambitious targets for reducing road accidents ( 34 ) have largely focused on engineering and technological advancements, the modification of occupational demands, and, to a lesser extent, human factors. These factors include stress and psychological states; sleep, fatigue, and alertness; and health status. Physical activity appears to influence all these human factors but ...

Fatigue-induced changes in intrinsic and reflex properties of human elbow extensor muscles and the underlying mechanisms for fatigue compensation were investigated. The elbow joint was perturbed using small-amplitude and pseudorandom movement patterns while subjects maintained steady levels of mean joint extension torque. Intrinsic and reflex properties were identified simultaneously using a no...

To achieve an effective and safe operation on the machine system where the human interacts with the machine mutually, there is a need for the machine to understand the human state, especially cognitive state, when the human’s operation task demands an intensive cognitive activity. Due to a well-known fact with the human being, a highly uncertain cognitive state and behavior as well as expressio...