Postactivation potentiation in human knee extensors during dynamic passive movements

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 735-743

  Babault, Nicolas ^a   Maffiuletti, Nicola A ^b   Pousson, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Contractile history; Lengthening; Shortening; Twitch contractile properties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; DYNAMOMETER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; TORQUE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

EID: 40949101806     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318160ba54     Document Type: Article

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