Reproducibility of fascicle length and pennation angle of gastrocnemius medialis in human gait in vivo

Gait and Posture

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-77

  Aggeloussis, Nickos ^a   Giannakou, Erasmia ^a   Albracht, Kirsten ^b   Arampatzis, Adamantios ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Muscle architecture; Reliability; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GAIT; GASTROCNEMIUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PENNATION ANGLE; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73149100349     PISSN: 09666362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2009.08.249     Document Type: Article

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