Muscle fascicle and tendon behavior during human locomotion revisited

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 193-199

  Ishikawa, Masaki ^a,b   Komi, Paavo V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND SPORT SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gait; Muscle fiber; Muscle mechanics; Tendon elasticity; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENDON; WEIGHT BEARING; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MYOTATIC REFLEX; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WALKING;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX, STRETCH; RUNNING; TENDONS; WALKING;

EID: 58149158092     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JES.0b013e3181878417     Document Type: Review

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