title: Damage to skeletal muscle from eccentric exercise.
abstract: Evidence is provided for a mechanical event as the first step in the process leading to muscle damage after a series of eccentric contractions. Aspects discussed include the decline in active tension, increase in passive tension, shift in length-tension relation, soreness, swelling, and disturbed proprioception.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia. uwe.proske@med.monash.edu.au
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Proske
authors.forename: Trevor J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D001315:Australia; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D009119:Muscle Contraction; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010146:Pain; D011434:Proprioception; D012518:Sarcomeres