Acute effects of static stretching on the hamstrings using shear elastic modulus determined by ultrasound shear wave elastography: Differences in flexibility between hamstring muscle components

Manual Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 610-613

  Umegaki, Hiroki ^a   Ikezoe, Tome ^a   Nakamura, Masatoshi ^a,b   Nishishita, Satoru ^a   Kobayashi, Takuya ^a   Fujita, Kosuke ^a   Tanaka, Hiroki ^a   Ichihashi, Noriaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hamstrings; Shear wave elastography; Stretching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FINAL ANGLE; HAMSTRING; HIP FLEXION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE EXTENSION; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MUSCLE FLEXIBILITY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE TORQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMIMEMBRANOSUS MUSCLE; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SHEAR ELASTIC MODULUS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATIC STRETCHING; ULTRASOUND SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT; YOUNG MODULUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HIP; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LEG; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931570450     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2015.02.006     Document Type: Article

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