Shigeru Sato

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the acute and prolonged effect of different durations of foam rolling intervention on ROM, muscle stiffness, and muscle strength, and they found that foam rolling for more than 90 s or more was effective in order to increase the range of motion immediately without changing muscle stiffness.

TL;DR: The results of this study showed that the ROM was significantly increased SS intervention in all conditions compared with prior to SS intervention, and there were no significant interaction effects for isokinetic contraction muscle strength and the shear elastic modulus.

TL;DR: Investigating the effects of two 6-week SS programs performed with different frequencies but generally the same duration of stretching on the passive properties of the medial gastrocnemius muscle-tendon unit suggests that a high-frequency SS program is more effective than a low- frequencies program in increasing ROM and decreasing muscle stiffness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of a high-volume static stretching (SS) program on muscle strength and architecture were investigated, and the results showed that even with a volume much greater than already tested, the low strain offered by the SS per set seems to induce architectural changes on skeletal muscle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of short-term duration foam rolling intervention on an eccentrically-damaged muscle in the leg extensors and detected the acute effect of 90s foam rolling on muscle soreness and muscle function of the quadriceps muscle.