Contraction Induced Muscle Injury: Towards Personalized Training and Recovery Programs

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 388-403

  Givli, Sefi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eccentric contraction; Muscle; Muscle adaptation; Muscle damage; Strain

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; MEASUREMENT; STRAIN;

DAILY LIFE ACTIVITIES; ECCENTRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE DAMAGE; MUSCLE INJURIES; MUSCLE SORENESS; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

MUSCLE;

CREATINE KINASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DISEASE MARKER; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDUAL FORCE ENHANCEMENT; SARCOMERE; SARCOMERE POPPING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INJURIES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SARCOMERES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES;

EID: 84923695811     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-014-1173-7     Document Type: Article

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