Eccentric exercise: acute and chronic effects on healthy and diseased tendons

Michael Kjaer; Katja Maria Heinemeier

doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01044.2013

Eccentric exercise: acute and chronic effects on healthy and diseased tendons

Michael Kjaer, Katja Maria Heinemeier

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Abstract

Eccentric exercise can influence tendon mechanical properties and matrix protein synthesis. mRNA for collagen and regulatory factors thereof are upregulated in animal tendons, independent of muscular contraction type, supporting the view that tendon, compared with skeletal muscle, is less sensitive to differences in type and/or amount of mechanical stimulus with regard to expression of collagen, regulatory factors for collagen, and cross-link regulators. In overused (tendinopathic) human tendon, eccentric exercise training has a beneficial effect, but the mechanism by which this is elicited is unknown, and slow concentric loading appears to have similar beneficial effects. It may be that tendinopathic regions, as long as they are subjected to a certain magnitude of load at a slow speed, independent of whether this is eccentric or concentric in nature, can reestablish their normal tendon fibril alignment and cell morphology.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Applied Physiology
Volume	116
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	1435-1438
Number of pages	4
ISSN	8750-7587
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.01044.2013
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2014

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