Acute and prolonged effect of static stretching on the passive stiffness of the human gastrocnemius muscle tendon unit in vivo

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1759-1763

  Nakamura, Masatoshi ^a   Ikezoe, Tome ^a   Takeno, Yohei ^a   Ichihashi, Noriaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

connective tissue; muscle tendon unit; static stretching; stiffness; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYNAMOMETER; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE TENDON; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TENDON UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATIC STRETCHING; TENDON DISEASE; TENDON STIFFNESS;

ANKLE JOINT; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; TORQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053195503     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.21445     Document Type: Article

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