Effects of prolonged walking on neural and mechanical components of stretch responses in the human soleus muscle

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 4339-4347

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

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; LATENT PERIOD; LIMB MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; ROBOTICS; TREADMILL TEST;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL EXERTION; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, STRETCH; WALKING;

EID: 69949085889     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.174912     Document Type: Article

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