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Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 159-167 , April 2007

Viscoelastic behavior of human fasciae under extension in manual therapy

Hans Chaudhry, Ph.D.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
- War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Medical Center, East Orange, NJ 07018, USA
Chien-Yueh Huang, Ph.D.
- Otto H. York Department of Chemical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +19735965613; fax: +19735968436.
Robert Schleip, M.A.
- Department of Applied Physiology, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89069 Ulm, Germany
Zhiming Ji, Ph.D.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Bruce Bukiet, Ph.D.
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
Thomas Findley, M.D., Ph.D.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
- War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Medical Center, East Orange, NJ 07018, USA

Received 22 April 2006 ,Revised 14 August 2006 ,Accepted 30 August 2006.

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