The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between muscle fascicle length and sprint running performance in 37 male 100-m sprinters. The sample was divided into two performance groups by the personal-best 100-m time: 10.00-10.90 s (S10; n = 22) and 11.00-11.70 s (S11; n = 15). Muscle thickness and fascicle pennation angle of the vastus lateralis and gastrocnemius medialis and...

Objectives. To investigate associations between muscle strength and pain sensitivity among healthy volunteers and associations between different pain sensitivity measures. Methods. Twenty-eight healthy volunteers (21 females) participated. Pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) were obtained from 1) computer-controlled pressure algometry on the vastus lateralis and deltoid muscles and on the infrapate...

Estimation of assimilation efficiency of bivalves, fed with radiolabeled bacteria, differs substantially depending on choice of tracer. We have investigated assimilation of bactena by the dwarf surf clam MuLinia lateralis (Say) using bacteria labeled w t h either ~ [ ~ ~ S ] m e t h i o n i n e or [ m e t h y l 3 ~ ] thymidme. Labeled bacteria were fed to M. lateralis 6.18 f 0.45 mm (mean +SD) ...

PURPOSE The aim of this work is to provide information about the degree of inter-subject uniformity of location of innervation zone (IZ) in 13 superficial muscles of the lower limb. The availability of such information will allow researchers to standardize and optimize their electrode positioning procedure and to obtain accurate and repeatable estimates of surface electromyography (sEMG) signal...

Proton density (PD) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) are techniques that enable the acquisition of data from living subjects can be used in fine-tuning subject-specific models’ architectural parameters. The aim this study was to determine vivo 3D parameters (volume, pennation angle, fiber length physiological cross-sectional area) gastrocnemius medialis, lateralis, soleus tibialis anterior mu...

conclusions the study findings indicate that short-term exercises had no significant effect on the ratio of vmo to vl muscle fiber angles in patients with pfps. results there were no significant differences in the muscle strength and fiber angle of the vmo, vl oblique and longus muscles after training between the control and experimental groups (p > 0.05). patients and methods thirty-five subje...