Talk:F wave

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You know, I pride myself on my vocabulary, but I find myself hoping for someone on the medical side to translate this into English... -- April

Even with a physiology degree, this article is a challenging read. And there are some problems with accuracy to boot:

The article states that "F waves are action potentials". This is not technically true as F waves are measured using electromyography. EMG readings are from surface electrodes, and hence a single F wave represents the sum of many action potentials.
The article further states that F waves "are elicited by the excitation of motor neurons by an antidromically travelling electric impulse". F waves are actually elicited by an orthodromic impulse created when the antidromic stimulus is reflected by motor neurons in the spinal cord. (An antidromic impulse is one that travels in a direction opposite to the natural direction, where the "natural" direction is from spinal cord to muscle fiber and is dubbed orthodromic.)

Hopefully my bold edits yield the desired translation to English :-) --Diberri 07:11, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)