Plyometric training involves the use of exercises in which actual muscles after eccentric contraction become concentric. The aim this narrative review was to determine significance and role plyometric basketball, ie aimed influence on explosive power, sprint, change direction speed basketball players. results indicate that is an effective method has a positive effect short-term maximum performa...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this lesson the reader will be able to do the following: 1. Describe the physiological adaptations within the muscle following strength exercises 2. Provide examples of the changes that occur with neural adaptations within muscle 3. List the major contributors to improving muscle strength 4. Explain the differences among strength, power, and endurance 5. Disti...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the results of a training method to increase voluntary recruitment of internal oblique and transversus abdominis muscles. Forty volunteers were assigned to either a Control or an Experimental Group. Training consisted of multisensory (auditory, tactile, visual, and kinesthetic) cuing focused on the lower abdominal muscles during the slow curl-back (eccen...

OBJECTIVE Detail the progress of an adolescent soccer player with right-sided chronic medial foot pain due to striking an opponent's leg while kicking the ball. The patient underwent diagnostic ultrasound and a conservative treatment plan. CLINICAL FEATURES The most important features were hindfoot varus, forefoot abduction, flatfoot deformity, and inability to single leg heel raise due to pa...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate muscle damage indicators and electromyography activities of quadriceps muscles at 25° of hip flexion in untrained healthy females after an eccentric exercise induced muscle fiber damage.   methods : a total of 14 healthy females participated in this pre-experimental study. the subjects performed maximal eccentric quadriceps contractions at 25...

Kcith Lyle, C.B.E., M.D., M.Ch., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Cvnthia Douthwaite, D.B.E., and Jill Wilkinson, D.B.O. (Pp. xii + 135. 25s.) London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1%0. THIS interesting and unique book is an abridged English version of Jean Sedan's Post Cure de L'Amblyope Reeduque. No more competent team could have undertaken this task than Keith Lyle and the othoptists at the High Holborn Branch of...

Introduction Eccentric (negative) resistance exercise of the legs using specialized machines has been reported to be useful and often superior to standard exercise following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Movements that utilize body mass and gravity as a mode of eccentric resistance exercise in a more pragmatic rehabilitation paradigm may also be useful in reversing chronic muscle impairments o...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine if a chronic eccentric training intervention, i.e., negative work, could limit or even reverse sarcopenia and its related impairments and functional limitations. Is high-force eccentric training tolerable by elderly people and will it result in improved muscle size, strength, balance, and fall risk? METHODS 21 frail elderly subjects (mea...

BACKGROUND A recent study reported promising clinical results using eccentric quadriceps training on a decline board to treat jumper's knee (patellar tendinosis). METHODS In this prospective study, athletes (mean age 25 years) with jumper's knee were randomised to treatment with either painful eccentric or painful concentric quadriceps training on a decline board. Fifteen exercises were repea...