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Stretching Your Energetic Budget: How Tendon Compliance Affects the Metabolic Cost of Running

Muscles attach to bones via tendons that stretch and recoil, affecting muscle force generation and metabolic energy consumption. In this study, we investigated the effect of tendon compliance on the metabolic cost of running using a full-body musculoskeletal model with a detailed model of muscle ene...

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Autores principales: Uchida, Thomas K., Hicks, Jennifer L., Dembia, Christopher L., Delp, Scott L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4773147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26930416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150378