Relationships between muscle size and hardness of the medial gastrocnemius at different ankle joint angles in young men

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-311

  Akagi, Ryota ^a   Chino, Kentaro ^b   Dohi, Michiko ^a   Takahashi, Hideyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Muscle condition; Muscle thickness; Ultrasonography; Ultrasound real time tissue elastography

Indexed keywords

ANKLE JOINTS; DORSIFLEXIONS; ELASTOGRAPHY; KNEE JOINT; LOWER LEG; MEDIAL GASTROCNEMIUS; MUSCLE HARDNESS; MUSCLE SIZE; MUSCLE THICKNESS; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PASSIVE TORQUES; POSITIVE VALUE; PRONE POSITION; TEST BENCHES;

HARDNESS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE JOINT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRONE POSITION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 84860135458     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2011.110481     Document Type: Article

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