Force summation between muscles: Are muscles independent actuators?

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 184-190

  Sandercock, Thomas G ^a,b   Maas, Huub ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Fascia; Myofascial; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANKLE; CAT; ELECTRODE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORCE SUMMATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE; LATERAL GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MEDIAL GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RELAXATION TIME; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; ROTATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TENDON; TENOTOMY; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ANIMAL; FASCIA; MECHANICAL STRESS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CATS; FASCIA; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS;

EID: 65849476576     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318183c0c3     Document Type: Review

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