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The effects of poliomyelitis on motor unit behavior during repetitive muscle actions: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, September 2014
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Title
The effects of poliomyelitis on motor unit behavior during repetitive muscle actions: a case report
Published in
BMC Research Notes, September 2014
DOI 10.1186/1756-0500-7-611
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Michael A Trevino, Trent J Herda, Michael A Cooper

Abstract

Acute paralytic poliomyelitis is caused by the poliovirus and usually results in muscle atrophy and weakness occurring in the lower limbs. Indwelling electromyography has been used frequently to investigate the denervation and innervation characteristics of the affected muscle. Recently developed technology allows the decomposition of the raw surface electromyography signals into the firing instances of single motor units. There is limited information regarding this electromyographic decomposition in clinical populations. In addition, regardless of electromyographic methods, no study has examined muscle activation parameters during repetitive muscle actions in polio patients. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the motor unit firing rates and electromyographic amplitude and center frequency of the vastus lateralis during 20 repetitive isometric muscle actions at 50% maximal voluntary contraction in healthy subjects and one patient that acquired acute paralytic poliomyelitis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 33 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 18%
Researcher 6 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 15%
Professor 4 12%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Other 6 18%
Unknown 4 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 26%
Engineering 4 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 9%
Neuroscience 3 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 8 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 September 2014.
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#13,413,381
of 22,764,165 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#1,681
of 4,262 outputs
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#113,026
of 238,866 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#61
of 142 outputs
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