التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: |
Combining isometric knee extension exercises with hip adduction or abduction does not increase quadriceps EMG activity. |
المؤلفون: |
Hertel, J, Earl, J E, Tsang, K K W, Miller, S J |
المصدر: |
British Journal of Sports Medicine; Apr2004, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p210-213, 4p |
مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ADULTS, ISOMETRIC exercise, ELECTROMYOGRAPHY, KNEE injuries, KNEE jerk, YOUNG adults |
مستخلص: |
Objective: To determine if the combined isometric contractions of knee extension/hip adduction and knee extension/hip abduction will elicit a different quadriceps and gluteus medius electromyographic (EMG) pattern as compared to isometric contraction of a uniplanor knee extension exercise. Methods: Eight healthy young adult volunteers without history of knee or quadriceps injury participated. Surface EMG data were collected from the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL), and gluteus medius (Gmed) muscles of the dominant leg of each subject during three single leg, weight bearing, isometric exercises (uniplanar knee extension, knee extension/hip adduction, knee extension/hip abduction). All exercises were performed at a position of 600 knee flexion. Three trials lasting 5 s each were performed for each of the three exercises. EMG data from each muscle were integrated and the maximum root mean square activity over a 0.5 s window for each trial was averaged. Analyses of variance were performed with exercise (straight extension, extension/adduction, extension/abduction) as the independent variable and VMO, VL, and Gmed activity and VMO:VL ratio as dependent variables. Results: A significant main effect for exercise was found for the VMO (p = 0.006) and VL (p = 0.02), but not the Gmed (p = 0.25) or the VMO:VL ratio (p = 0.13). For the VMO and VL, the uniplanar knee extension task produced significantly more EMG activity than the extension/adduction or extension/abduction tasks. Conclusions: Uniplanar knee extension exercises may be more appropriate than combining isometric knee extension exercises with hip adduction or abduction when eliciting maximal VMO and VL contractions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |