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The effects of muscle fatigue on the silent period of the masticatory muscles
Author(s) -
NAGASAWA T.,
TAMURA H.,
TSURU H.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of oral rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2842
pISSN - 0305-182X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2842.1988.tb00189.x
Subject(s) - silent period , masticatory force , period (music) , muscle fatigue , medicine , physical medicine and rehabilitation , orthodontics , electromyography , art , stimulation , aesthetics , transcranial magnetic stimulation
Summary Thirteen healthy adults performed sustained clenching at 50% maximum clenching level judged electromyographically. Electromyograms were recorded from both anterior temporal and masseter muscles during clenching and the silent period latency and duration were measured. As the result of muscle fatigue, the silent period latency significantly decreased, whilst the duration significantly increased up to 3 min from the beginning of clenching.