Influence of muscle cooling on the passive mechanical properties of the human gastrocnemius muscle

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 19-21

  Muraoka, Tetsuro ^a   Omuro, Kohei ^b   Wakahara, Taku ^b   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^b   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COOLING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

COOLING CONDITIONS; HUMAN GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE (GAS); MUSCLE COOLING; PLANTARFLEXION FORCE;

MUSCLE;

EID: 33846913713     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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