Alterations of stiffness and resting position of the elbow joint following flexors resistance training

Manual Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 411-418

  Ocarino, Juliana M ^a   Fonseca, Sérgio T ^b   Silva, Paula L P ^c   Mancini, Marisa C ^b   Gonçalves, Gabriela G P ^d  

^a CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE BELO HORIZONTE   (Brazil)

^b School of Physical Education   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Equilibrium Point Hypothesis; Muscular hypertrophy; Resting position; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; JOINT STABILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAINING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SARCOMERES; TORQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 49149094614     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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