Chronic neural adaptations to unilateral exercise: mechanisms of cross education

Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2000 Oct;28(4):177-84.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological*
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Electromyography
  • Exercise / physiology*
  • Exercise Therapy* / methods
  • Extremities / innervation
  • Extremities / physiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Motor Activity
  • Muscle Contraction / physiology
  • Muscle, Skeletal / innervation*
  • Muscle, Skeletal / physiology*
  • Nervous System Physiological Phenomena*
  • Neuromuscular Diseases / rehabilitation
  • Posture
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Spinal Cord / physiology
  • Time Factors