Do you have a sample to share in the gallery?
Title of the article
The Effect of Multidirectional Loading on Contractions of the M. Medial Gastrocnemius
List of authors
David S Ryan, Norman Stutzig, Andreas Helmer, Tobias Siebert, James M Wakeling
The journal in which the article is published
Frontiers in Physiology
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.601799
A brief summary
Muscles have a maximum force that they can produce. Previous research showed that compressing a muscle will cause a reduction in that maximum force. Our goal was to determine how muscle length and the direction of compression influence the reduction of force. We found that muscle at a shorter resting length while compressing from multiple directions does not result in any force reductions. This conflicts with previous results from studies where the resting length of the muscle was longer and shows that resting muscle length is important to how the muscle reacts to being compressed.
This post was originally posted on the SFU BPK Instagram account on March 11th, 2021.