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Chronic neural adaptations to unilateral exercise: mechanisms of cross education
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Chronic neural adaptations to unilateral exercise: mechanisms of cross education

Shi Zhou
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, Vol.28(4), pp.177-184
2000

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Abstract

Sports Sciences

Cross education refers to the contralateral effect of chronic motor activity in one limb. The effect can enhance or diminish motor activity and is specific to the homologous muscles and the training task. The mechanisms underlying the phenomenon involve adaptations in the nervous system, probably at the level of the spinal cord.

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