stretching: can it cause permanent length change in muscle?

[friendlypain]

Hi Alophysio,

Hey no worries. I love to share as muscles are amazing in their functions and structure. I remember reading on a website that a muscle was akin to a pseudo-crystalline structure. Going nuts to confirm it. 8o

My favorite site for looking up info is muscle.ucsd.edu/index.shtml
It has awesome links to all sorts of studies. Search for Jan Friden MD on the site and look for "Effect of Muscle Tension During Tendon Transfer on Sacromerogenisis in a Rabbit Model". I believe it was in the Journal of Hand Surgery 1999 or 2000.... or Just type stretch and length I guess. :b

As for Titin:

A. S. Politou, M. Gautel, M. Pfuhl, S. Labeit and A. Pastore, Biochemistry, 1994, 33, 4730-4737.

A. S. Politou, D. J. Thomas and A. Pastore, Biophys. J., 1995, 69, 2601-2610.

A. S. Politou, M. Gautel, S. Improta, L. Vangelista and A. Pastore, J. Mol. Biol., 1996, 255, 604-616.

Trinick and L. Tskhovrebova, Trends Cell Biol.,1999, 9, 377-380.

L. Tskhovrebova, J. Trinick, J. A. Sleep, R. M. Simmons, Nature, 1997, 387, 308-312.

Squire, Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 1997, 7, 247-257.

www.biophysj.org/cgi/cont.../75/6/2613

Plus text books (Guyton’s "Medical Physiology", (dont remember author) "Sports Injury Management", etc.) seminars and professional experience (ie. STOP the pain spasm cycle at all costs! :eek )

Another site I usually go to is www.ipsm.org/ for just general sports stuff...

If I remember anything else I'll post it. Have a good one.
Adamo

[Yarok]

Hi all

Good explanation you find in Diagnosis and treatmentof movement impairment syndroms,Shirley A. Sahrmann.

thanks
Yaro