Muscle thickness, muscle stiffness and muscle contractility
muscle stiffness
In all three groups, muscle thickness changed similarly after EIMD, both at BF-mid (To extend the current methods, muscle stiffness and muscle contractility were assessed to examine changes after EIMD. To the authors’ knowledge, this was the first investigation to use SWE after heavy, eccentric exercise of the hamstring muscle and in a resistance-trained population. Most studies implemented fewer measurement occasions and merely investigated muscle stiffness in untrained populations (Lacourpaille et al. In accordance with previous research, muscle contractility was hampered by muscle damaging exercise. Similar to the SWE values and confirming the results of Maeo et al. (