Time course of changes in passive properties of the gastrocnemius muscle-tendon unit during 5 min of static stretching

Manual Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 211-215

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

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Muscle tendon unit; Passive torque; Static stretching; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TENDON UNIT; MUSCLE TENDON UNIT RESISTANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; MYOTENDINOUS JUNCTION DISPLACEMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PASSIVE TORQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATIC STRETCHING; STRETCHING; TENDON;

HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TENDONS; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877153200     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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