Behaviour of vastus lateralis muscle-tendon during high intensity SSC exercises in vivo

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 205-213

  Ishikawa, Masaki ^a   Finni, T ^a   Komi, P V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fascicle; Force velocity; Muscle tendon unit; Recoil; Stretch shortening cycle; Tendinous tissue; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; JUMPING; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; TENDON; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS;

EID: 0038348081     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.2003.01149.x     Document Type: Article

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