In vivo behavior of muscle fascicles and tendinous tissues in human tibialis anterior muscle during twitch contraction

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 3114-3120

  Oda, Toshiaki ^a   Himeno, Ryutaro ^a   C Hay, Dean ^b   Chino, Kentaro ^c   Kurihara, Toshiyuki ^b   Nagayoshi, Toshihiko ^d   Kanehisa, Hiroaki ^b   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^d   Kawakami, Yasuo ^d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compliant tendinous tissues; Muscle fibers; Muscle tendon interaction; Twitch time characteristics; Ultrasound images

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; TENDONS; TORQUE MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS;

COMPLIANT TENDINOUS TISSUES; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE-TENDON INTERACTION; TWITCH TIME CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRASOUND IMAGES;

BONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TORQUE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34948856934     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2007.03.023     Document Type: Article

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