PURPOSE: This study compared responses to static stretching between eccentrically damaged and non-damaged muscles. METHODS: Twelve young @entity1 performed 60 maximum knee flexor eccentric contractions of one leg, and received a 300-s continuous passive static stretching at tolerable intensity without @entity158 to both knee flexors at 2 and 4  days after the eccentric exercise. Range of motion (ROM) and passive @entity2693 during knee extension, passive torque at onset of @entity158 (PT), maximum voluntary isometric (MVC-ISO) and isokinetic concentric contraction torque (MVC-CON), and @entity227 ( @entity227 ) for muscle soreness were measured before, immediately after, 60  min, 2 and 4  days after exercise as well as before, immediately after, 20 and 60  min after the stretching. Changes in these variables after eccentric exercise and stretching were compared between limbs. RESULTS: The eccentric exercise decreased MVC-ISO, MVC-CON, ROM and PT, and increased passive @entity2693 and @entity227 (p  <  0.05), suggesting that @entity121 was induced to the knee flexors. ROM and PT increased after stretching for both limbs; however, the magnitude of the increase was greater (p  <  0.05) for the damaged than non-damaged limb. Passive @entity2693 decreased for both limbs similarly (4-7  %) at immediately after stretching (p  <  0.05). Significant decreases in MVC-ISO torque (7-11  %) after stretching were observed only for the non-damaged limb (p  <  0.05), but MVC-CON torque did not change after stretching for both limbs. @entity227 decreased for the exercised limb after stretching (p  <  0.05). CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the static stretching at tolerable intensity without @entity158 produced greater positive effects on damaged than non-damaged muscles.

Changes in force and XXXX after static stretching of eccentrically-damaged hamstrings.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['men'] @entity227 :: ('MESH:D014786', 'Disease') :: ['visual analogue scale', 'VAS'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['pain'] @entity121 :: ('MESH:D009135', 'Disease') :: ['muscle damage'] @entity2693 :: ('MESH:C566112', 'Disease') :: ['stiffness']
@entity2693 :: (MESH:C566112,Disease) :: ['stiffness']
