Effects of cold and hot water immersion on the mechanical properties of human muscle and tendon in vivo

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 291-300

  Kubo, Keitaro ^a   Kanehisa, Hiroaki ^a   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon; Aponeurosis; Temperature; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HEAT TREATMENT; JOINTS (ANATOMY); PATIENT TREATMENT; TENDONS; ULTRASONICS;

APONEUROSIS; MUSCLE FASCICLES; PLANTER FLEXION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANKLE; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; COOLING; ECHOGRAPHY; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENDON; WATER IMMERSION;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; COLD; ELASTICITY; HEAT; HUMANS; IMMERSION; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; TORQUE; WATER;

EID: 13844297700     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2004.11.005     Document Type: Article

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