Abstract
Superposition of electromyographic potentials occurs when motor nerves are excited at intervals that are shorter than the duration of one single muscular signal. The method introduced here allows the separation of compound responses into their constituents in experiments with two closely spaced stimuli (conditioning stimulus and test stimulus), each of them eliciting a defined electromyographic response. Stimulus generation is controlled by a small laboratory computer which produces paired stimuli or the conditioning stimulus alone in random order. All responses are classified according to the size of the initial part of the response to the conditioning stimulus and averaged. The response to the test stimulus is obtained by a subtraction procedure. The method takes into account the considerable variability of reflex responses in man. It was tested in the analysis of recovery curves of spinal reflexes elicited by short vibratory pulses onto the tendons of relaxed human arm muscles.
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