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Elastography Study of Hamstring Behaviors during Passive Stretching.
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- Characterizing Musculoskeletal Tissue Mechanics Based on Shear Wave Propagation: A Systematic Review of Current Methods and Reported Measurements.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2022Pooled it
- Acute effects of flossing band application on hamstring muscle mechanical properties and stretch tolerance: a randomized controlled crossover trial.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
- Dominant and Nondominant Side Patterns in Hamstring Stiffness and Clinical Flexibility in Amateur Football Players and Healthy Controls.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Effect of 12-week dynamic stretching of hamstrings on joint flexibility and musculoskeletal properties.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Letter to the Editor : Acute effects of flossing band application on hamstring muscle mechanical properties and stretch tolerance: a randomized controlled crossover trial.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Regional Differences in Muscle and Fascial Tissue Stiffness in the Rectus Femoris Are Dependent Upon Localised Stretching.European journal of sport science · 2026Article
- In vivo tibialis anterior muscle mechanics through force estimation using ankle joint moment and shear wave elastography.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effect of Knee Angle, Contractile Activity, and Intensity of Force Production on Vastus Lateralis Stiffness: A Supersonic Shear Wave Elastography Pilot Study.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Hamstring Muscle Stiffness in Athletes with and without Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction History: A Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Is muscle stiffness a determinant for range of motion in the leg muscles?Biology of sport · 2024Article
- Rotational 3D shear wave elasticity imaging: Effect of knee flexion on 3D shear wave propagation in in vivo vastus lateralis.Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · 2024Article
- Ultrasound shear wave seeds reduced following hamstring strain injury but not after returning to sport.Insights into imaging · 2024Article
- The Influence of Mobility Training on the Myofascial Structures of the Back and Extremities.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Mild to moderate damage in knee extensor muscles accumulates after two bouts of maximal eccentric contractions.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
- Detecting age-related changes in skeletal muscle mechanics using ultrasound shear wave elastography.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive muscle force in human hamstring muscles using a Thiel soft-embalmed cadaver.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2023Article
- Skeletal Muscle Assessment Using Quantitative Ultrasound: A Narrative Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Regional shear wave elastography of Achilles tendinopathy in symptomatic versus contralateral Achilles tendons.European radiology · 2023Article
- Quantitative assessment of biceps brachii muscle stiffness by using Young's modulus-Angle curve during passive stretching in stroke patients.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionThe mechanical properties of hamstring muscles are usually inferred from global passive torque/angle relationships, in combination with adjoining tissues crossing the joint investigated. Shear modulus measurement provides an estimate of changes in muscle-tendon stiffness and passive tension. This study aimed to assess the passive individual behavior of each hamstring muscle in different stretching positions using shear wave elastography. METHODS/
resultsThe muscle shear modulus of each hamstring muscle was measured during a standardized slow passive knee extension (PKE, 80% of maximal range of motion) on eighteen healthy male volunteers. Firstly, we assessed the reliability of the measurements. Results were good for semitendinosus (ST, CV: 8.9%-13.4%), semimembranosus (SM, CV: 10.3%-11.2%) and biceps femoris long-head (BF-lh, CV: 8.6%-13.3%), but not for biceps femoris short-head (BF-sh, CV: 20.3%-44.9%). Secondly, we investigated each reliable muscle in three stretch positions: 70°, 90° and 110° of hip flexion. The results showed different values of shear modulus for the same amount of perceived stretch, with the highest measurements in the high-flexed hip situation. Moreover, individual muscles displayed different values, with values increasing or BF-lh, SM and ST, respectively. The inter-subject variability was 35.3% for ST, 27.4% for SM and 30.2% for BF-lh.
conclusionThis study showed that the hip needs to be high-flexed to efficiently tension the hamstrings, and reports a higher muscle-tendon stress tolerance at 110° of hip angle. In addition muscles have different passive behaviors, and future works will clarify if it can be linked with rate of injury.
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