Regional variations in fascicle curvatures within a muscle belly change during contraction

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2835-2840

  Namburete, Ana I L ^a   Wakeling, James M ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Curvature; Curvature regionalization; Gastrocnemius muscle; Muscle fascicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; CURVATURE; CURVATURE REGIONALIZATION; DEEP LAYER; DORSIFLEXIONS; ELASTIC COMPRESSION; EXTERNAL PRESSURES; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; INTERNAL PRESSURES; LOCAL CURVATURE; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MIDDLE LAYER; MODELLING STUDIES; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MUSCLE FASCICLES; NEGATIVE CURVATURE; REGIONAL VARIATION; S-SHAPED; SUPERFICIAL LAYERS; ULTRASOUND SCANS;

BIOMECHANICS; MECHANICS;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; B SCAN; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; DORSIFLEXION; FASCICLE CURVATURE VARIATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE STABILITY; MUSCLE TONE; PLANTARFLEXION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FASCICULATION; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 84868368415     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.08.033     Document Type: Article

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