Eccentric Exercise Training: Modalities, Applications and Perspectives

Sports Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 483-512

  Isner Horobeti, Marie Eve ^a,b,h   Dufour, Stéphane Pascal ^a,b   Vautravers, Philippe ^a   Geny, Bernard ^a,b   Coudeyre, Emmanuel ^c   Richard, Ruddy ^b,d,e,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c Hopital Nord CHU de Clermont Ferrand   (France)

^d SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

^e INRA and University of Auvergne   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^g CRNH AUVERGNE   (France)

^h Institut Universitaire de Réadaptation Clémenceau Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ARTICLE;

EXERCISE; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

EID: 84878615762     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-013-0052-y     Document Type: Review

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