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Figure 5

From: Muscle function during single leg landing

Figure 5

Mean (bars) and SD (error bars) musculotendinous contributions to the bodyweight (BW) normalised ground reaction force impulse across the landing phase (initial contact to peak knee flexion) of a single-leg drop landing from a 0.31 m height. SOLEUS, soleus; VASTI, vasti (sum of vastus intermedius, lateralis and medialis); GAS, gastrocnemius (sum of lateral and medial gastrocnemius) GMAX, gluteus maximus; RECFEM, rectus femoris; BFSH, biceps femoris short head; HAM, biarticular hamstrings (sum of biceps femoris long head, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus); DORSI, ankle dorsiflexors (sum of tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis and digitorum longus).

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