Acute effects of static stretching on characteristics of the isokinetic angle-torque relationship, surface electromyography, and mechanomyography

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 687-698

  Cramer, Joel T ^a   Beck, Travis W ^b   Housh, Terry J ^b   Massey, Laurie L ^c   Marek, Sarah M ^c   Danglemeier, Suzanne ^c   Purkayastha, Sushmita ^c   Culbertson, Julie Y ^d   Fitz, Kristi A ^c   Egan, Alison D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Electromyography; Joint angle at peak torque; Mechanomyography; Peak torque; Work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; RANGE OF MOTION; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SARCOMERE; TORQUE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; TORQUE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947377767     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410600818416     Document Type: Article

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