Tendons are tough, inelastic bands of connective tissue formed of a dense, highly organized matrix of parallel collagen fibres that is maintained by resident tenocytes. Tendons attach skeletal ...

Neck and shoulder pain is often due to an injury of the soft tissue. Soft tissue includes your muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The term is used to distinguish it from the hard tissue of bones and ...

This remarkable procedure allows us to detect and treat areas of “scar tissue” or adhesions in muscles, tendons and ligaments that can reduce ... be used to identify and treat areas exhibiting soft ...

Hence, within the clinical assessment of mechanical soft-tissue properties, collected data should be interpreted ... Ultrasound-based assessments of tendon deformability on loading have grown in ...