Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2007
Force enhancement during and following muscle stretch of maximal voluntarily activated human quadriceps femoris.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Residual force enhancement in human skeletal muscles: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of sport and health science · 2022Pooled it
- Post-Activation-Performance Enhancement: Possible Contributing Factors.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2024Trial
- Decoupling of muscle-tendon unit and fascicle velocity contributes to the in vivo stretch-shortening cycle effect in the male human triceps surae muscle.Physiological reports · 2024Article
- Residual force enhancement is affected more by quadriceps muscle length than stretch amplitude.eLife · 2022Article
- Residual force enhancement in humans: Is there a true non-responder?Physiological reports · 2021Article
- The effect of stretch-shortening magnitude and muscle-tendon unit length on performance enhancement in a stretch-shortening cycle.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Force enhancement in the human vastus lateralis is muscle-length-dependent following stretch but not during stretch.European journal of applied physiology · 2020Article
- Contribution of Stretch-Induced Force Enhancement to Increased Performance in Maximal Voluntary and Submaximal Artificially Activated Stretch-Shortening Muscle Action.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Passive force enhancement in striated muscle.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2019Review
- Modifiability of the history dependence of force through chronic eccentric and concentric biased resistance training.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2019Article
- Mitigating the bilateral deficit: reducing neural deficits through residual force enhancement and activation reduction.European journal of applied physiology · 2018Article
- Stretching the limits of maximal voluntary eccentric force productionJournal of sport and health science · 2018Article
- Predictors of residual force enhancement in voluntary contractions of elbow flexors.Journal of sport and health science · 2018Article
- History-dependence of muscle slack length following contraction and stretch in the human vastus lateralis.The Journal of physiology · 2018Article
- A new experimental model for force enhancement: steady-state and transient observations of the Drosophila jump muscle.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2015Article
- Force enhancement in lengthening contractions of cat soleus muscle in situ: transient and steady-state aspects.Physiological reports · 2013Article
- Enhanced force production in old age is not a far stretch: an investigation of residual force enhancement and muscle architecture.Physiological reports · 2013Article
- Length changes of human tibialis anterior central aponeurosis during passive movements and isometric, concentric, and eccentric contractions.European journal of applied physiology · 2012Article
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- Force-time history effects in voluntary contractions of human tibialis anterior.European journal of applied physiology · 2009Article
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Abstract
Force enhancement during and following muscle stretch has been observed for electrically and voluntarily activated human muscle. However, especially for voluntary contractions, the latter observation has only been made for adductor pollicis and the ankle joint muscles, but not for large muscles like quadriceps femoris. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of active muscle stretch on force production for maximal voluntary contractions of in vivo human quadriceps femoris (n = 15). Peak torques during and torques at the end of stretch, torques following stretch, and passive torques following muscle deactivation were compared to the isometric torques at corresponding muscle length. In addition, muscle activation of rectus femoris, vastus medialis and vastus lateralis was obtained using surface EMG. Stretches with different amplitudes (15, 25 and 35 degrees at a velocity of 60 degrees s(-1)) were performed on the plateau region and the descending limb of the force-length relation in a random order. Data analysis showed four main results: (1) peak torques did not occur at the end of the stretch, but torques at the end of the stretch exceeded the corresponding isometric torque; (2) there was no significant force enhancement following muscle stretch, but a small significant passive force enhancement persisted for all stretch conditions; (3) forces during and following stretch were independent of stretch amplitude; (4) muscle activation during and following muscle stretch was significantly reduced. In conclusion, although our results showed passive force enhancement, we could not provide direct evidence that there is active force enhancement in voluntarily activated human quadriceps femoris.
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