Title: Damage to Skeletal Muscle from Eccentric Exercise
Abstract: In Brief Evidence is provided for a mechanical event as the first step in the process leading to muscle damage after a series of eccentric contractions. Aspects discussed include the decline in active tension, increase in passive tension, shift in length–tension relation, soreness, swelling, and disturbed proprioception. Changes in properties of skeletal muscle are described that are the result of damage to muscle fibers from eccentric contractions.