Changes in passive tension after stretch of unexercised and eccentrically exercised human plantarflexor muscles

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 545-554

  Reisman, Simone ^a   Allen, Trevor J ^a   Proske, Uwe ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eccentric exercise; Pain; Passive tension; Thixotropy; Warm up

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONVALESCENCE; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELASTIC FIBER; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CONTRACTURE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE; TORQUE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE TONUS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; TORQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449190674     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1657-5     Document Type: Article

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