Muscle Thixotropy : Implications for Human Motor Control
Human skeletal muscles possess thixotropic, i.e. history-dependent mechanical properties. This means that the degree of passive muscle stiffness and resting tension is dependent on the immediately preceding history of contractions and length changes. Athletes, for instance, reduce passive muscle sti...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
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Uppsala universitet, Klinisk neurofysiologi
2005
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5791 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-554-6246-4 |