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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Meas. 2015 May 28;36(7):1485–1496. doi: 10.1088/0967-3334/36/7/1485

Figure 2.

Figure 2

The average (± standard deviation) measured wave speed for fifteen young and ten middle-aged adults is plotted along the length of the tendon for the (a) plantarflexed, (b) resting and (c) dorsiflexed postures. Measured wave speeds decreased proximally, with the highest wave speeds observed in the distal free tendon (FT), lower values observed in the soleus aponeurosis (SA) and the lowest values in the proximal gastrocnemius aponeurosis (GA). Wave speed was significantly lower in the GA of middle-aged adults in the dorsiflexed posture. +p < 0.05