Multimodal neuroimaging of fatigability development, 2025, Bedard/Nath/Walitt et al

[Creekside]

Maybe electric shocks applied to the muscles might be a way to measure their force generating ability in a way that circumvents the brain-input?

I've suggested that multiple times whenever the topic of muscle weakness has come up. Electrostimulation should bypass the neurological aspect, so it would be measuring muscle properties directly. It's the difference between measuring an engine's fuel economy in a test stand vs a person's driving habits (and headwinds, tire pressure, etc).

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

Electrostimulation should bypass the neurological aspect, so it would be measuring muscle properties directly.

There have been electro-stimulation studies,I think by Andrew Lloyd amongst other but they may have been pretty limited.