Physical therapists are doctorate level trained health care providers who are experts in exercise, function movement, and performance. In practice, physical therapists use a three main muscle ...

Isometric Muscle Contraction: A type of muscle contraction in which activation of motor units and the production of force does not result in joint motion or a change in muscle length. This occurs when ...

When you take a muscle through the full range of motion, it goes through three phases of muscle contraction: eccentric, isometric, and concentric. Placing more attention on one phase can yield ...

Try this quick experiment: While holding a cup in your hand, reach your arm out in front of you and hold that position for as long as you can. Your arm gets tired and burns after a while, doesn’t it?

Isometric exercises are those that use static muscle contraction. This means that the muscle groups are activated and produce contraction but the muscle length doesn’t change Isometric exercises are ...