Changes in joint angle, muscle-tendon complex length, muscle contractile tissue displacement, and modulation of EMG activity during acute whole-body vibration

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 420-429

  Cochrane, Darryl J ^a   Loram, Ian D ^b   Stannard, Stephen R ^c   Rittweger, Jörn ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Contractile element; Isometric contraction; Muscle length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENDON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VIBRATION;

EID: 69749113153     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21330     Document Type: Article

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