Editorial: Physiology and Clinical Potential of Eccentric Exercise

Martino V Franchi; Kyle W Mitchell; Hans Hoppeler; Marco V Narici

doi:10.3389/fphys.2017.00891

Editorial: Physiology and Clinical Potential of Eccentric Exercise

Front Physiol. 2017 Nov 3:8:891. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00891. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Martino V Franchi^{1

2}, Kyle W Mitchell², Hans Hoppeler³, Marco V Narici^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory for Muscle Plasticity, Department of Orthopedics, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
² MRC-ARUK Centre of Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, University of Nottingham, Derby, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Anatomy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Physiology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: eccentric contractions; eccentric exercise; eccentric training; mechanotransduction; muscle remodeling; rehabilitation; resistance training.

Publication types

Editorial