Congratulations to Simon Bühl for finishing his Master’s Thesis!
Congratulations to Simon for completing his master’s thesis on “Changes in discharge properties of motor units during intermittent and prolonged contractions”.
Simon investigated the changes in the discharge properties of motor units during intermittent submaximal fatigue contractions in the tibialis anterior motor units. To collect data, he performed experiments with several subjects that had to follow force ramps displayed on a monitor with the force to be exerted during contraction of the tibialis anterior muscle. The goal was to fatigue the subjects until they either failed the task or completed a large number of ramps.
After the experiments, he decomposed the recorded EMG signals to obtain information about the discharge rates and recruitment thresholds of the motor units during the experiment. The results of his work indicate that the nervous system compensates for changes in muscle forces by a continuous and uniform decrease in recruitment thresholds, an increase in spike correlations, and the discharge rate of high-threshold motor units.
We congratulate him on his great work and wish him success in his publication and future career!