Abstract:Objective. Calf strain occurs frequently in tennis players and has been termed "tennis leg". To date, there is a lack of information showing how injury history, age, gender, or level of play, may predispose tennis players to injury (1, 2). The purpose of this study was to investigate the elastographic properties of the gastrocnemius-soleus complex in a group of club-level tennis players. We hypothesized that elastographic properties of the gastrocnemius-complex are affected by age and sport specificity (tennis… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.