The Influence of Fatigue on Trunk Motor Control and Brain Activity

45 minute rest while seated. Watching an animated movie, sleeping was not allowed.

2 blocks of 80 trials of RAM in either a forward (n = 40) or backward (n = 40) shoulder flexion direction and back to neutral as fast as possible, with maintaining extension in the elbow. Visual cues (arrows) indicated the movement direction.

40 minutes rest while seated followed by static endurance tasks, i.e. modified Biering-Sörensen task and static abdominal curl task.

45 minutes of a cognitively fatiguing condition consisting of a modified incongruent Stroop color-word task.