Passive Muscle-Tendon Amplitude May Not Reflect Skeletal Muscle Functional Excursion

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1105-1110

  Fridén, Jan ^a   Ward, Samuel R ^a   Smallwood, Laura ^a   Lieber, Richard L ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

forearm biomechanics; tendon excursion; Tendon transfer surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDON TRANSFER; TENDONS;

EID: 33747877506     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2006.05.014     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Mayer L. The physiological method of tendon transplantation. II. Operative technique. Surg Gynecol Obstet 22 (1916) 298-306
2. Mayer L. The physiological method of tendon transplantation. III. Experimental and clinical experiences. Surg Gynecol Obstet 22 (1916) 472-481
3. Brand P.W. Biomechanics of tendon transfer. Orthop Phys Ther Clin N Am 5 (1974) 205-230
4. Freehafer A.A., and Mast W.A. Transfer of the brachioradialis to improve wrist extension in high spinal-cord injury. J Bone Joint Surg 49A (1967) 648-652
5. Brand P.W., Beach R.B., and Thompson D.E. Relative tension and potential excursion of muscles in the forearm and hand. J Hand Surg 3 (1981) 209-219
6. Fridén J., and Lieber R.L. Mechanical considerations in the design of surgical reconstructive procedures. J Biomech 35 (2002) 1039-1045
7. Fridén J., Albrecht D., and Lieber R.L. Biomechanical analysis of the brachioradialis as a donor in tendon transfer. Clin Orthop 383 (2001) 152-161
8. Brunner R., Jaspers R.T., Pel J.J., and Huijing P.A. Acute and long-term effects on muscle force after intramuscular aponeurotic lengthening. Clin Orthop 378 (2000) 264-273
9. Maas H., Jaspers R.T., Baan G.C., and Huijing P.A. Myofascial force transmission between a single muscle head and adjacent tissues: length effects of head III of rat EDL. J Appl Physiol 95 (2003) 2004-2013
10. Lieber R.L., Jacobson M.D., Fazeli B.M., Abrams R.A., and Botte M.J. Architecture of selected muscles of the arm and forearm: anatomy and implications for tendon transfer. J Hand Surg 17A (1992) 787-798
11. Botte M.J., and Pacelli L.L. Historical aspects of tendon transfers. In: Fridén J. (Ed). Tendon transfers in reconstructive hand surgery (2005), Taylor & Francis, London 21-27
12. Huijing P.A., Nieberg S.M., Veen E.A., and Ettema G.J.C. A comparison of rat extensor digitorum longus and gastrocnemius medialis muscle architecture and length-force characteristics. Acta Anat (Basel) 149 (1994) 111-120
13. Bodine S.C., Roy R.R., Meadows D.A., Zernicke R.F., Sacks R.D., Fournier M., and Edgerton V.R. Architectural, histochemical, and contractile characteristics of a unique biarticular muscle: the cat semitendinosus. J Neurophysiol 48 (1982) 192-201
14. Berger R.A., and Weiss A.C. Hand surgery (2003), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore 927-936
15. Green D.P., Hotchkiss R.N., Pederson W.C., and Wolfe S.W. Green's operative hand surgery. 3rd ed. (2005), Churchill Livingstone, New York 1407-1410
16. Asakawa D.S., Blemker S.S., Rab G.T., Bagley A., and Delp S.L. Three-dimensional muscle-tendon geometry after rectus femoris tendon transfer. J Bone Joint Surg 86A (2004) 348-354
17. Freehafer A.A., Peckham P.H., and Keith M.W. Determination of muscle-tendon unit properties during tendon transfer. J Hand Surg 4 (1979) 331-339
18. Lieber R.L., Murray W., Clark D.L., Hentz V.R., and Fridén J. Biomechanical properties of the brachioradialis muscle: implications for surgical tendon transfer. J Hand Surg 30A (2005) 273-282
19. Loren G.J., Shoemaker S.D., Burkholder T.J., Jacobson M.D., Fridén J., and Lieber R.L. Human wrist motors: biomechanical design and application to tendon transfers. J Biomech 29 (1996) 331-342
20. Williams P., and Goldspink G. Changes in sarcomere length and physiological properties in immobilized muscle. J Anat 127 (1978) 459-468
21. Fridén J., and Lieber R.L. Evidence for muscle attachment at relatively long lengths in tendon transfer surgery. J Hand Surg 23A (1998) 105-110
22. Lieber R.L., Fazeli B.M., and Botte M.J. Architecture of selected wrist flexor and extensor muscles. J Hand Surg 15A (1990) 244-250