Muscle-Tendon
On muscle, tendon and high heels
... Skeletal muscle is a highly malleable tissue that can adapt both morphologically and functionally to chronic alterations in mechanical ...places muscle–tendon units (MTUs) in a shortened position is ...
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In vivo muscle function vs speed I Muscle strain in relation to length change of the muscle tendon unit
... studying muscle function it is important to know what the muscle fascicles are actually doing because the performance of muscle is strongly influenced by the type of activity: force decreases as a ...
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LRT, a tendon specific leucine rich repeat protein, promotes muscle tendon targeting through its interaction with Robo
... of muscle-tendon attachment (Fig. 1E; Fig. 2). Tendon cells of embryos at stages 13-14, which do not yet bind to muscles, did not exhibit positive staining for LRT protein (not shown), although these ...
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Power amplification in an isolated muscle–tendon unit is load dependent
... amplify muscle power ...of muscle – tendon units (MTUs) during movement and reaction torques from proximal joints have recently been shown to contribute to the loading of elastic structures (Astley ...
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Elastic ankle muscle–tendon interactions are adjusted to produce acceleration during walking in humans
... Although it may seem intuitive that increased ankle joint work comes from greater active shortening of TS muscles, we have already noted that the significant in-series compliance of these muscles decouples fascicle ...
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Contractile and elastic behaviour of human muscle-tendon complexes with inertial loading.
... the muscle in its series elasticity and quick ‘recovery’ of this stored elastic energy later on during the ...the muscle and its series elasticity can deliver power to an external load thereby exceeding the ...
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Passive mechanical properties of human gastrocnemius muscle–tendon units, muscle fascicles and tendons in vivo
... of a single parameter at 5% above or below its estimated value before re-estimating the remaining eight parameters. The analysis showed that, while errors of 5% produced small to moderate changes in length–tension ...
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The influence of patellar tendon and muscle tendon unit stiffness on quadriceps explosive strength in man
... skeletal muscle contractile force production is slowed by the necessity of the muscle to shorten in order to stretch the elastic components that transmit muscle force (Hill, 1951; Edman & ...
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Biomechanical and biochemical study of muscle-tendon-bone in porcine digital flexor tendon
... the muscle-tendon-bone unit. Results indicate that the tendon cross-sectional stiffness increases from the proximal end to the distal ...and tendon-bone ...
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Developmental differences in dynamic muscle–tendon behaviour: implications for movement efficiency
... than tendon stiffness during growth (Waugh et ...of muscle and tendon is governed by their respective stiffnesses, the greater increase in muscle strength versus tendon stiffness ...
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Dynamics of goat distal hind limb muscle–tendon function in response to locomotor grade
... distal muscle–tendon units (MTUs) of horses and other ungulates appear to be highly specialized for tendon elastic savings and economical locomotion (Biewener, 1998; Biewener, 2003; Ker et ...of ...
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Influence of the muscle tendon unit's mechanical and morphological properties on running economy
... the muscle belly as assessed by palpation, parallel to the presumed direction of the muscle ...surae muscle was assessed from the EMGs of the gastrocnemius medialis (GM), gastrocnemius lateralis (GL) ...
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Muscle-tendon weakness contributes to chronic fatigue syndrome in Gaucher’s disease
... in addition, peripheral neuropathy has been described in about 11% of them, which contributes to the disabling and debilitating complications in GD1 [4, 5]. However, other factors including muscle-tendinous ...
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The storage of elastic energy by the muscle tendon complex: The effects of tendon compliance and muscle strength and the implications for locomotion
... interosseus muscle), to a modiAcation of a simple Hill model of the MTC as a SEC and a CC in ...the muscle is being suddenly stretched whilst it is ...the muscle velocity line goes positive (see ...
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Anatomy and morphometry of the distal gracilis muscle tendon in adults and foetuses
... narrow muscle ending with a cylindrical ...whole muscle determined in our material, 480 mm on average, did not differ significantly from morphometric data in the literature [28, ...the tendon Figure ...
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Anatomical variations of the palmaris longus muscle including its relation to the median nerve – a proposal for a new classification
... PL muscle tendon is a perfect choice for grafts, be- cause it meets the most important criteria, such as the ne- cessary length and diameter, and the functionality of the upper limb is undisturbed by the ...
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Mechanics and energetics of incline walking with robotic ankle exoskeletons
... lower-limb muscle–tendons during ...ankle muscle–tendon positive mechanical power is relatively cheap from a metabolic ...ankle muscle–tendon system delivers positive mechanical work ...
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A subject-specific EMG-driven musculoskeletal model for applications in lower-limb rehabilitation robotics
... uses muscle activation dynamics to extract muscle activation from raw EMG signals, a Hill-type muscle-tendon model to calculate muscle contraction force, and a proposed subject-specific ...
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Powered ankle exoskeletons reveal the metabolic cost of plantar flexor mechanical work during walking with longer steps at constant step frequency
... ankle muscle–tendon moment is an accurate estimate of the underlying mechanical work performed by the ankle plantar flexor muscles and Achilles’ tendon recoil during the push-off phase of ...of ...
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Optimum take off techniques and muscle design for long jump
... serial tendon. Therefore, the muscle–tendon complex work loop was strongly influenced by the J-shaped nonlinear stress–strain curve of the tendon ...to muscle–tendon complex ...
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