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Effects Of Estrogen On The Mechanical Behavior Of The Human Achilles Tendon In Vivo, Adam Bryant, Ross Clark, Simon Bartold, Aron Murphy, Kim Bennell, Erik Hohmann, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Craig Payne, Kay Crossley
Effects Of Estrogen On The Mechanical Behavior Of The Human Achilles Tendon In Vivo, Adam Bryant, Ross Clark, Simon Bartold, Aron Murphy, Kim Bennell, Erik Hohmann, Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik, Craig Payne, Kay Crossley
Sonya Marshall-Gradisnik
The purpose of this study was to elucidate the effect of normal fluctuating [nonmonophasic oral contraceptive pill (MOCP) users] and low, consistent (MOCP users) endogenous plasma estrogen levels on the strain behavior of the Achilles tendon in vivo. Twenty women (age 28.0 ± 4.2 yr, height 1.67 ± 0.07 m, mass 61.6 ± 6.8 kg) who had been using the MOCP for at least 12 mo together with 20 matched women who were non-MOCP users (age 31.9±7.3 yr, height 1.63 ± 0.05 m, mass 62.5 ± 5.9 kg) participated in this study. Non-MOCP users were tested at the time of …