Effect of muscle contraction levels on the force-length relationship of the human Achilles tendon during lengthening of the triceps surae muscle-tendon unit

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2168-2171

  Sugisaki, Norihide ^a   Kawakami, Yasuo ^a   Kanehisa, Hiroaki ^b   Fukunaga, Tetsuo ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FITNESS AND SPORTS IN KANOYA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Tendon property; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDONS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; DORSIFLEXIONS; ELASTIC SPRINGS; FORCE-LENGTH; ISOKINETIC DYNAMOMETERS; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MUSCLE FIBER; TENDON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCLE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

TENDONS;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTICLE; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON REFLEX; TRICEPS SURAE MUSCLE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ANKLE JOINT; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960270832     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.05.015     Document Type: Article

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