Optimum length of muscle contraction

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 537-542

  Chang, Yi Wen ^a   Su, Fong Chin ^a   Wu, Hong Wen ^a   An, Kai Nan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Elbow joint; Length tension relationship; Muscle stress; Optimization; Optimum muscle length

Indexed keywords

DYNAMOMETERS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCLE; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SURGERY; TENDONS;

BIOMECHANICAL DATA; ELBOW JOINT; LENGTH TENSION RELATIONSHIP; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRESS; OPTIMUM MUSCLE LENGTH;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELBOW FLEXION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON TRANSFER; TORQUE;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0032772229     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(99)00014-5     Document Type: Article

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