Posts tagged with eccentric contraction

Muscle Strains: Rehabilitation and Prevention

The Anatomy
There is somewhere around 640 skeletal muscles in the human body.  Skeletal muscle is a complex network of muscle fibers, connective tissue, nervous tissue, and blood vessels.  The connective tissue forms a framework of support by surrounding individual…

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ACL Injury Prevention

THE ANATOMY

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) connects the femur to the tibia at the knee.  It runs from the front of the tibial plateau (top of the tibia) towards the back and inside surface of the end of the…

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