Viscoelastic characteristics of muscle: Passive stretching versus muscular contractions

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1619-1624

  Taylor, Dean C ^a   Brooks, Daniel E ^a   Ryan, John B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

CONTRACTILE FORCE; FLEXIBILITY; ISOMETRIC; VISCOELASTICITY

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; HINDLIMB; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RABBITS;

EID: 0031451059     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199712000-00011     Document Type: Article

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