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Myo-mechanical Analysis of Isolated Skeletal Muscle
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Published on: February 22, 2011

The effect of tendon viscoelastic stiffness on the dynamic performance of isometric muscle

R Baratta1, M Solomonow

  • 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112.

Journal of Biomechanics
|January 1, 1991
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