A lumped stiffness model of intermuscular and extramuscular myofascial pathways of force transmission

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1747-1763

  Bernabei, Michel ^a   Maas, Huub ^a   van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Connective tissues; Gastrocnemius; Myofascial force transmission; Phenomenological model; Rat; Soleus; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HISTOLOGY; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; RATS; STIFFNESS;

CONNECTIVE TISSUES; EPIMUSCULAR; FORCE TRANSMISSION; GASTROCNEMIUS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MYOFASCIAL FORCE TRANSMISSION; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS; STIFFNESS MODELING;

MUSCLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAMUSCULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FORCE; INTERMUSCULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE; LUMPED STIFFNESS MODEL; MALE; MUSCLE RESECTION; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RIGIDITY; SCAR; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; FASCIA; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TENDON; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FASCIA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS, WISTAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TENDONS;

EID: 84969848229     PISSN: 16177959     EISSN: 16177940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10237-016-0795-0     Document Type: Article

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