Viscoelastic properties of the achilles tendon in vivo

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Peltonen, Jussi ^a   Cronin, Neil J ^a   Stenroth, Lauri ^a   Finni, Taija ^a   Avela, Janne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hysteresis; Loading rate dependency; Medial gastrocnemius; Stiffness; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878787970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-212     Document Type: Article

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