Influence of stretching and warm-up on Achilles tendon material properties

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-413

  Park, Don Young ^a   Rubenson, Jonas ^b   Carr, Amelia ^a   Mattson, James ^a   Besier, Thor ^a   Chou, Loretta B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Achilles tendon injuries; Prevention of Achilles tendon injuries; Stretching Achilles tendon; Warm up Achilles tendon

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FORCE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOGGING; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRETCHING EXERCISE; TENDON INJURY; TENDON REFLEX; ULTRASOUND; WARM UP;

ACHILLES TENDON; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES;

EID: 79954474984     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2011.0407     Document Type: Article

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