Tendinous movement of a human muscle during voluntary contractions determined by real-time ultrasonography

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1430-1433

  Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^a   Ito, Masamitsu ^b   Ichinose, Yoshiho ^b   Kuno, Shinya ^b   Kawakami, Yasuo ^b   Fukashiro, Senshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

pennate muscle; tibialis anterior muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; TENDON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0029758479     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1996.81.3.1430     Document Type: Article

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