Neural aspects of human muscle fatigue

Funded Activity Summary

Muscle fatigue is common after exercise in healthy people. In many tasks, some muscles become more fatigued than others. Thus, the nervous system must often coordinate fatigued muscles (which produce less force) with unfatigued muscles. We will investigate how fatigue of one muscle alters the way the brain controls other muscles that are engaged in the same task or in unrelated tasks. This will aid understanding of the failures of coordination that lead to poor performance and injury.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $331,390.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

There are no SEO codes available for this funding activity

Other Keywords

central nervous system | exercise | fatigue | fatigue syndromes | motor cortex | neural injury or pathology | rehabilitation | transcranial magnetic stimulation

Related Links