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Over on this thread from post 8 Colin stated that he measured muscle stiffness when it appears that he was discussing muscle tightness.
In a post I showed some links to measurement of muscle stiffness in the triceps surea muscle group -http://www.ijs.si/~jbabic/files/Article_EJAP04.pdf
So 1st it´s important to define Muscle Tightness and Muscle Stiffness.
Ive looked but no ´official ´ definition was found in a quick search, If anyone has any be great if you could post them.
But muscle stiffness and Muscle tightness are quite different and are related but it is important that these terms are not interchanged.
Muscle tightness in my mind looks at the ROM of joints are how the length of the muscle effects this.
Muscle stiffness looks at the Viscoelastic properties of muscles and tendons.
So the next question becomes is it important to understand Muscle stiffness ? How will it help us in practice ? is it possible to measure muscle stiffness ?etc etc.
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