Objectives: To identify what is known about the validity of real time ultrasound (RTUS)
measurements of skeletal muscle size and to summarise populations and conditions that …

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Ultrasound is a proven method for examining soft tissue
structures, including tendons, and recently quantitative ultrasound has become more …

Purpose The objectives of this work was to conduct a comprehensive state-of-the art review
of the current literature to identify any gaps or discrepancies and summarize the main …

Sonoelastography is a newly introduced ultrasound technique that evaluates tissue elasticity
and thus provides additional information to that offered by conventional ultrasound images …

Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging allows non-invasive measurement of skeletal muscle
thickness. Current techniques generally suffer from manual operator dependency, while all …

Unless a subject's muscle is relatively small, a single image from a standard ultrasound can
only measure muscle thickness (MT). Thus, it is important to know whether MT is related to …

The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation in semitendinosus (ST) and gracilis
(GT) tendon cross-sectional area (CSA) evaluated directly during anterior cruciate ligament …

Limited information is available on whether stiffness is different within and between the
constituents of the hamstring, that is, the biceps femoris long head (BFlh), semitendinosus …

Background Static stretching (SS) with hip flexion and knee extension is often used to stretch
the hamstrings. However, it is unclear whether there are the differences in the acute effect of …

The purposes of this study were to compare Young's modulus values determined by shear
wave ultrasound elastography (SWUE) with stiffness index obtained using a hand-held …