Effects of a titin mutation on negative work during stretch-shortening cycles in skeletal muscles.

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Negative work occurs in muscles during braking movements such as downhill walking or landing after a jump. When performing negative work during stretch-shortening cycles, viscoelastic structures within muscles store energy during stretch, return a fraction of this energy during shortening and dissipate the remaining energy as heat. Because tendons and extracellular matrix are relatively elastic rather than...

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