Acute effects of stretching on muscle stiffness after a bout of exhaustive eccentric exercise

International Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 590-594

  Torres, R ^a   Appell, H J ^b   Duarte, Jose Alberto ^c  

^a CESPU   (Portugal)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Goniometry; Muscle stiffness; Pendulum test; Range of motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; EXERCISE; EXHAUSTION; FUNCTION TEST; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARAMETER; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANGE OF MOTION; STRETCHING; VELOCITY; WARTENBERG PENDULUM TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PAIN; PORTUGAL; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 34447502393     PISSN: 01724622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-964865     Document Type: Article

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