New insights into In vivo human skeletal muscle function

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-21

  Kawakami, Yasuo ^a   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fascicle; Human movement; Isokinetic joint actions; Muscle fiber; Muscle tendon interaction

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; JOINT FUNCTION; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TORQUE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; VELOCITY; BIOMECHANICS; JOINT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; JOINTS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TORQUE;

EID: 33645641352     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003677-200601000-00005     Document Type: Review

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