Mechanical and neural stretch responses of the human soleus muscle at different walking speeds

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3375-3382

  Cronin, Neil J ^a,d,e   Ishikawa, Masaki ^b   Grey, Michael J ^c   Af Klint, Richard ^a   Komi, Paavo V ^d   Avela, Janne ^d   Sinkjaer, Thomas ^a   Voigt, Michael ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^e NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE FIBER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; WALKING SPEED; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE STRETCHING;

ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX, STRETCH; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650373444     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.162610     Document Type: Article

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