medial gastrocnemius
Extramuscular myofascial force transmission for in situ rat medial gastrocnemius and plantaris muscles in progressive stages of dissection
... rat medial gastrocnemius (GM) muscle and its neighbouring plantaris (PL) muscle, and that such transmission will decrease in progressive stages of dissection of the GM muscle–tendon ...
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Differences in contractile behaviour between the soleus and medial gastrocnemius muscles during human walking
... The functional roles of individual lower limb muscles during human walking may differ depending on walking speed or duration. In this study, 11 volunteers walked on a treadmill for 60 min at speeds corresponding to ...
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Muscle and tendon lengthening behaviour of the medial gastrocnemius during ankle joint rotation in children with cerebral palsy
... the medial gastrocnemius muscle-tendon junction (MTJ), or on the muscle belly, and the position and orientation of the image was tracked using motion analysis by means of a cluster of markers attached to ...
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Motor Unit Number Estimation in Normal and Parkinsonism Model of Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle in Rats
... Fig 1. Trace A shows normal electromyogram (EMG), in the beginning, motor unit potentials recorded during mild to moderate and maximal involuntary contractions of medial gastrocnemius muscle, in the middle, ...
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Knee extensor loss and proximal tibial soft tissue defect managed successfully with simultaneous medial gastrocnemius flap, saphenous fasciocutaneous flap and medial hemisoleus flap: a case report
... extended medial gastrocnemius flap in combination with a saphenous artery fasciocutaneous flap and a medial hemisoleus flap for treatment of an infected proximal tibia fracture with loss of the ...
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Medial gastrocnemius muscle stiffness cannot explain the increased ankle joint range of motion following passive stretching in children with cerebral palsy
... This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. taking 5 seconds to complete one movement, which resulted in an average velocity of 10deg/s. At least 10 seconds rest was taken between individual repetitions. ...
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Movement within foot and ankle joint in children with spastic cerebral palsy: a 3 dimensional ultrasound analysis of medial gastrocnemius length with correction for effects of foot deformation
... for medial gastrocnemius muscle- tendon complex length between TD and SCP children over a range of footplate angles, while the externally ap- plied moment, necessary for bringing the foot plate to the ...
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The relationship between medial gastrocnemius lengthening properties and stretch reflexes in cerebral palsy
... the gastrocnemius of children with spastic CP is commonly evaluated by passively rotating the ankle joint into dorsiflexion at different velocities, such as applied in conventional clinical spasticity assessments ...
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Coordination of medial gastrocnemius and soleus forces during cat locomotion
... cat medial gastrocnemius (MG) and soleus (SOL) muscles by direct measurement of the muscle forces and electromyographic activities (EMGs), muscle lengths, speeds of contraction, joint kinematics and ...
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Effects of prestretch at the onset of stimulation on mechanical work output of rat medial gastrocnemius muscle tendon complex
... Prestretch of a muscle at the onset of stimulation results in an enhancement of work production during subsequent shortening, which is mainly caused by extra elastic energy release.. How[r] ...
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Functional implications of h-reflex modulation and modification in human soleus, medial gastrocnemius, and lateral gastrocnemius muscles
... In response to the conditioning-induced changes in the H-reflex pathway, the rats maintained their normal locomotion pattern by compensatory changes in the activity of other leg muscle[r] ...
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Architectural Changes in the Medial Gastrocnemius on Sonography after Nerve Ablation in Healthy Adults
... US was used to identify the location of nerves and vessels in the popliteal fossa and calf area, with the subject lying in a prone position. After local anesthesia using 1% lidocaine, a ra- dio frequency probe connected ...
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The Mechanics of the Medial Gastrocnemius Muscle in the Freely Hopping Wallaby (Thylogale Billardierii)
... Elastic energy storage in the tendons increased with hopping speed but the percentage of total work done by elastic recoil of the whole muscle did not increase at higher hopping speeds..[r] ...
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Efficiency of rat medial gastrocnemius muscle in contractions with and without an active prestretch
... From the above it is clear that for a more complete understanding of the energetics of running, much more study is necessary of, for example: the role of elastic energy in muscle-tendon [r] ...
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Morphology of the medial collateral ligament of the knee
... the medial meniscus at the joint ...the medial meniscus in the medial side of the knee ...line, medial epicondyle, medial gastrocnemius tubercle and medial adduct ...
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Compression of high-density EMG signals for trapezius and gastrocnemius muscles
... In this work, compression techniques based on linear prediction (lossless JPEG) and transforms (lossy JPEG) were evaluated for multi-channel EMG signals from upper tra- pezius (UT) and medial gastrocnemius ...
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Objective assessment of stiffness in the gastrocnemius muscle in patients with symptomatic Achilles tendons
... the medial gastrocnemius and one point at the lateral gastrocnemius of both left and right ...the medial and lateral gastrocnemius data sets, these were grouped into one data set per ...
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Relationship between foot function and medial knee joint loading in people with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis
... reduce medial compartment knee loading (by reducing the external KAM) in people with knee OA, however equivocal findings have been reported regarding their effectiveness ...
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Cross Time-Frequency Analysis of Gastrocnemius Electromyographic Signals in Hypertensive and Nonhypertensive Subjects
... Since muscle activation is not easily apprehended by visual inspection, clinical observation alone does not provide a complete picture of gait coordination. Electromyography can provide information about muscle function ...
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Ultrasound guided gastrocnemius recession: a new ultra–minimally invasive surgical technique
... scopic gastrocnemius recession is less invasive and may have advantages over open procedures in terms of enhanced visualization, smaller incisions, shorter opera- tive time, fewer complications, and less morbidity ...
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