Effects of muscle cooling on the stiffness of the human gastrocnemius muscle in vivo

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-160

  Muraoka, Tetsuro ^a   Omuro, Kohei ^a   Wakahara, Taku ^a   Muramatsu, Tadashi ^b   Kanehisa, Hiroaki ^c   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^a   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Skeletal muscle; Temperature; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRYOTHERAPY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; COLD; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMMERSION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 39149127547     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109943     Document Type: Article

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