ILOs

• Understand how to record surface EMGs.
• Measure the decline in maximal force during a sustained contraction.
• Examine some properties of muscular fatigue.
• List factors that may contribute to muscle fatigue.

• What is the neuromuscular junction? What events occur here?
• Muscle fatigue - background
• Experimental outline and risk assessment
• How can we explain the decline in maximal force during a sustained contraction?
• Force development, electromyography and arterial occlusion