Temporary tendon strengthening by preconditioning

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 619-622

  Teramoto, Atsushi ^a,b   Luo, Zong Ping ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FLORIDA ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon; Duration; Strength; Stretching

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRETCHING; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

ACHILLES TENDON; DURATION; INJURIES;

TENDONS;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENDON; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 44349183212     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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