Kontakt 2005, 7(1-2):153-156 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2005.030

Measurements of viscoelastic characteristic of soft tissues in spasic syndromeBiomedicine

Petr Šifta^1,*, Stanislav Otáhal¹, Jana Süssová²

¹ Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta tělesné výchovy a sportu

² Univerzita Karlova v Praze, 1. lékařská fakulta

The target of the research was a design and description of a non-invasive biomechanical method, which would be able to assess viscoelastic characteristics of soft tissues in spastic syndrome with the help of the appliance myotonometer. This was a correlation analytical study including a set of 344 measurements on 23 patients involved by spasticity of various etiopaogenesis. The result of this study is a presentation of the appliance myotonometer, which may be used for determining the viscoelastic parameters of interest.

Keywords: viscoelastic characteristics; spasticity; myotonometer

Published: June 29, 2005  Show citation