Length change of human gastrocnemius aponeurosis and tendon during passive joint motion

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 260-268

  Muraoka, Tetsuro ^a   Muramatsu, Tadashi ^b   Takeshita, Daisuke ^a   Kawakami, Yasuo ^a   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ankle; Aponeurosis, slackness; Strain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENDON; CYTOLOGY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TENDONS; HUMANS;

EID: 0035995859     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063128     Document Type: Article

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