Effects of plyometric training on lower body muscle architecture, tendon structure, stiffness and physical performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Ramírez-delaCruz, A Bravo-Sánchez… - Sports medicine …, 2022 - Springer
Background Plyometric training (PT) has been widely studied in sport science. However,
there is no review that determines the impact of PT on the structural variables and …

Effect of balance training on footwork performance in badminton: An interventional study

KT Malwanage, VV Senadheera, TL Dassanayake - PLoS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Badminton is a racket sport that requires a wide variety of proficient postural changes and
moves including jumps, lunges, quick changes in direction, and rapid arm movements …

Benefits of regular table tennis practice in body composition and physical fitness compared to physically active children aged 10–11 years

F Pradas, I Ara, V Toro, J Courel-Ibáñez - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to identify the differences in body composition and physical fitness
between children who played table tennis regularly during a two-year period compared to …

Stiffness of the gastrocnemius–Achilles tendon complex between amateur basketball players and the non-athletic general population

TT Chang, Z Li, XQ Wang, ZJ Zhang - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Muscle and tendon stiffness are related to sports performance, tendinopathy, and tendon
degeneration. However, the effects of habitual loading on muscle and tendon mechanical …

Residual force enhancement is affected more by quadriceps muscle length than stretch amplitude

P Bakenecker, T Weingarten, D Hahn, B Raiteri - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Little is known about how muscle length affects residual force enhancement (rFE) in
humans. We therefore investigated rFE at short, long, and very long muscle lengths within …

[Retracted] Recognition of Badminton Shot Action Based on the Improved Hidden Markov Model

C Ma, D Yu, H Feng - Journal of healthcare engineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, with the rapid development of sports, the number of people playing various
sports is increasing day by day. Among them, badminton has become one of the most …

Between-sexes differences in lumbopelvic muscle mechanical properties of non-climacteric adults: a cross-sectional design

DP Rodrigues-de-Souza, A Casas-Castro… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The lumbopelvic muscle mechanical properties (MMPs) are clinically relevant, but their
dependence on sex remains unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to identify if lumbopelvic …

Asymmetries of the muscle mechanical properties of the pelvic floor in nulliparous and multiparous women, and men: a cross-sectional study

DP Rodrigues-de-Souza, ACS Beleza, L García-Luque… - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to identify if the muscle mechanical properties (MMPs) of both sides of
pelvic floor muscles (PFMs) are symmetrical in different populations of both sexes. Between …

[HTML][HTML] Limb specific training magnitude and asymmetry measurement to discriminate between athletes with and without unilateral or bilateral lower limb injury history

MJ Wylde, AJ Callaway, JM Williams, J Yap… - Physical Therapy in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives This study investigates the use of tibia-mounted inertial measurement units
(IMUs) as an alternative to upper trunk-mounted IMUs for assessing lower limb training …

Correlation between maximal radial muscle displacement and stiffness in gastrocnemius muscle

N Labata-Lezaun, C López-de-Celis… - Physiological …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: Tensiomyography (TMG) and myotonometry (MMT) are two novel technologies
that measure neuromuscular properties. These two devices measure the stiffness of the soft …