The medial gastrocnemius muscle attenuates force fluctuations during plantar flexion

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-23

  Shinohara, Minoru ^a   Yoshitake, Yasuhide ^b   Kouzaki, Motoki ^c   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Error compensation; Knee joint angle; Muscle length; Steadiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTAR FLEXION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33344466889     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0119-6     Document Type: Article

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