Passive properties of the muscle-tendon unit: The influence of muscle cross-sectional area

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 227-229

  Ryan, Eric D ^a   Herda, Trent J ^a   Costa, Pablo B ^a   Defreitas, Jason M ^a   Beck, Travis W ^a   Stout, Jeffrey R ^a   Cramer, Joel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive energy absorption; Passive stiffness; Passive stretch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; TENDON;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TENDONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549101914     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21218     Document Type: Article

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