
Scapular muscle recruitment pattern: electromyographic response of the trapezius muscle to sudden shoulder movement before and after a fatiguing exercise
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- Ann Cools (UGent) , Erik Witvrouw (UGent) , Geert A De Clercq, Lieven Danneels (UGent) , Tine Willems (UGent) , Dirk Cambier (UGent) and Michael L Voight
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- Abstract
- Study Design: Test-retest reliability study and single-group repeated measures design. Objectives: To evaluate the muscle latency times of the 3 portions of the trapezius muscle to a sudden arm movement in normal shoulders and to determine if this recruitment pattern is altered as a result of fatigue, Background: It has been suggested that shoulder impingement may be related to altered muscle activity and muscle fatigue in the scapular stabilizers. Fatigue-induced changes in latency times of the trapezius might influence scapular stability, Methods and Measures: Muscle latency times were investigated in 30 healthy shoulders with surface electromyography, Muscle activity was measured in all 3 sections of the trapezius and the middle deltoid muscle during a sudden downward falling movement of the arm. Subsequently the shoulder was fatigued on an isokinetic dynamometer, after which muscle latency time measurement was repeated. Results: ANOVA for repeated measures revealed significant differences in latency times (P < 0.05) among the 4 muscles of interest. Although there were no significant differences among the 3 sections of the trapezius muscle, them all were recruited after the initialization of the deltoid muscle. The recruitment order of the shoulder muscles did not c hange with muscle fatigue. However, after fatigue. muscle responses were significantly slower in all muscles except for the lower trapezius (P < 0 05), Conclusions: There is a specific recruitment sequence in the shoulder muscles in response to a sudden arm movement characterized by initial activation of the middle deltoid muscle and followed by simultaneous contraction of all 3 sections of the trapezius. This muscle activation pattern is delayed but not altered with fatigue.
- Keywords
- scapular stabilizers, muscle latency times, NEUROMUSCULAR PERFORMANCE, IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME, PROPRIOCEPTION, muscular balance, FIBER TYPE COMPOSITION, neuromuscular properties, ENZYME-HISTOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS, TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS, ATHLETIC SHOULDER, ARM ABDUCTION, LOWER-LIMB, CONTRACTION
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-315057
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- Cools, Ann, et al. “Scapular Muscle Recruitment Pattern: Electromyographic Response of the Trapezius Muscle to Sudden Shoulder Movement before and after a Fatiguing Exercise.” JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY, vol. 32, no. 5, 2002, pp. 221–29.
- APA
- Cools, A., Witvrouw, E., De Clercq, G. A., Danneels, L., Willems, T., Cambier, D., & Voight, M. L. (2002). Scapular muscle recruitment pattern: electromyographic response of the trapezius muscle to sudden shoulder movement before and after a fatiguing exercise. JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY, 32(5), 221–229.
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- Cools, Ann, Erik Witvrouw, Geert A De Clercq, Lieven Danneels, Tine Willems, Dirk Cambier, and Michael L Voight. 2002. “Scapular Muscle Recruitment Pattern: Electromyographic Response of the Trapezius Muscle to Sudden Shoulder Movement before and after a Fatiguing Exercise.” JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY 32 (5): 221–29.
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- Cools, Ann, Erik Witvrouw, Geert A De Clercq, Lieven Danneels, Tine Willems, Dirk Cambier, and Michael L Voight. 2002. “Scapular Muscle Recruitment Pattern: Electromyographic Response of the Trapezius Muscle to Sudden Shoulder Movement before and after a Fatiguing Exercise.” JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY 32 (5): 221–229.
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- 1.Cools A, Witvrouw E, De Clercq GA, Danneels L, Willems T, Cambier D, et al. Scapular muscle recruitment pattern: electromyographic response of the trapezius muscle to sudden shoulder movement before and after a fatiguing exercise. JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY. 2002;32(5):221–9.
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- [1]A. Cools et al., “Scapular muscle recruitment pattern: electromyographic response of the trapezius muscle to sudden shoulder movement before and after a fatiguing exercise,” JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC & SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPY, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 221–229, 2002.
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