Biomechanical characteristics of the eccentric Achilles tendon exercise

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2702-2707

  Henriksen, Marius ^a   Aaboe, Jens ^a   Bliddal, Henning ^a,c   Langberg, Henning ^b  

^a FREDERIKSBERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Achilles Tendon; Biomechanics; Force; Movement Analysis; Muscle contraction

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES; ACHILLES TENDON; ACHILLES TENDONS; ANKLE JOINTS; BIOMECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; DORSIFLEXIONS; ECCENTRIC EXERCISE; EMG AMPLITUDE; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; GROUND REACTION FORCES; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; JOINT KINEMATICS; LOWER LEG; MOVEMENT ANALYSIS; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; ONE-LEGGED; POSITIVE EFFECTS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; WEIGHT BEARING;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE; SHRINKAGE;

TENDONS;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEG EXERCISE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL EXERTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 71549148075     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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