Warm-up stretches reduce sensations of stiffness and soreness after eccentric exercise

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 929-936

  Reisman, Simone ^a   Walsh, Lee D ^a   Proske, Uwe ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compression; Muscle damage; Pain; Passive tension; Vibration; Warm up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELBOW FLEXION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; SENSATION; VIBRATION; WARMING;

ADULT; ELASTICITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; VICTORIA;

EID: 20544464083     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000170471.98084.70     Document Type: Article

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