IN VIVO STIFFNESS EVALUATION OF HUMAN TENDONS

Filipe Conceição¹, Filipa Sousa¹, Pedro Gonçalves¹, João M. Carvalho², J. Paulo Vilas-Boas¹.

¹Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, ²Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.

The purpose of this study was to describe the use of in vivo ultrasonography to measure the tendon-aponeurosis linear stiffness of some muscles of the lower limb (Gastrocnemius, Rectus femoris and Vastus medialis) of long jump athletes.