In vivo estimation of contraction velocity of human vastus lateralis muscle during 'isokinetic' action

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 851-856

  Ichinose Muraoka, Y ^a,b   Kawakami, Y ^a   Ito, M ^a   Kanehisa, H ^a   Fukunaga, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WOMEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fascicle shortening velocity; Force velocity relationship; Isokinetic knee extension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

EID: 0342514707     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.2000.88.3.851     Document Type: Article

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