ArticleThe Journal of physiology2001
Changes in passive tension of muscle in humans and animals after eccentric exercise.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 174 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Achilles and patellar tendinopathy loading programmes : a systematic review comparing clinical outcomes and identifying potential mechanisms for effectiveness.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2013Pooled it
- Comparison of Interventional Strategies to Improve Recovery after Eccentric Exercise-Induced Muscle Fatigue.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Acute muscle and joint mechanical responses following a high-intensity stretching protocol.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Trial
- High day-to-day reliability in lower leg volume measured by water displacement.European journal of applied physiology · 2008Trial
- Length-dependent changes in voluntary activation, maximum voluntary torque and twitch responses after eccentric damage in humans.The Journal of physiology · 2006Trial
- Repeated maximal eccentric actions causes long-lasting disturbances in movement control.European journal of applied physiology · 2005Trial
- Mechanisms Influencing Maximum Joint Range of Motion and Stiffness: A Narrative Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Review
- Altered Skeletal Muscle Phosphate Metabolism After Muscle Damage Is Associated With Elevated Effort Perception During Exercise in Humans.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2026Article
- Kinetics of rectus femoris stiffness, architecture, and muscle damage biomarkers in response to deceleration intensity during repeated sprints.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Mechanical loading and fatigue-induced changes in triceps surae muscle-tendon unit: sex-specific responses and recovery dynamics.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Skeletal muscle elastic modulus in marathon distance runners.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Muscle energetics and the cardiovascular response to isometric exercise and post-exercise circulatory occlusion following exercise-induced muscle damage: insights from multiparametric MRI.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Contractile and Mechanical Properties of Quadriceps Muscles Measured by the Method of Tensiomyography (TMG) in Professional Soccer Players: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Mild to moderate damage in knee extensor muscles accumulates after two bouts of maximal eccentric contractions.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- The Reliability and Validity of a Portable Three-Dimensional Scanning System to Measure Leg Volume.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Posterior shoulder stiffness was associated with shoulder pain during throwing in college baseball players: assessment of shear wave elastography.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2023Article
- Contractile properties are less affected at long than short muscle length after eccentric exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
1. This is a report of experiments on ankle extensor muscles of human subjects and a parallel series on the medial gastrocnemius of the anaesthetised cat, investigating the origin of the rise in passive tension after a period of eccentric exercise. 2. Subjects exercised their triceps surae of one leg eccentrically by walking backwards on an inclined, forward-moving treadmill. Concentric exercise required walking forwards on a backwards-moving treadmill. For all subjects the other leg acted as a control. 3. Immediately after both eccentric and concentric exercise there was a significant drop in peak active torque, but only after eccentric exercise was this accompanied by a shift in optimum angle for torque generation and a rise in passive torque. In the eccentrically exercised group some swelling and soreness developed but not until 24 h post-exercise. 4. In the animal experiments the contracting muscle was stretched by 6 mm at 50 mm s(-1) over a length range symmetrical about the optimum length for tension generation. Measurements of passive tension were made before and after the eccentric contractions, using small stretches to a range of muscle lengths, or with large stretches covering the full physiological range. 5. After 150 eccentric contractions, passive tension was significantly elevated over most of the range of lengths. Measurements of work absorption during stretch-release cycles showed significant increases after the contractions. 6. It is suggested that the rise in passive tension in both human and animal muscles after eccentric contractions is the result of development of injury contractures in damaged muscle fibres.
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