Objective The aim of our study was to assess a group of patients with calf muscle tears and evaluate the integrity of the connective tissue boundaries and interfaces. Further, we propose a novel MRI ...

The researchers concluded that calf muscle hypertrophy was greater when Smith machine calf raises were performed to dorsiflexion compared with plantarflexion. When the goal is to increase calf ...

Results: MRI measured total SM mass and fat free mass (FFM) had increased by 4.2 kg and 2.6 kg respectively after resistance training. Conclusions: RT induces larger increases in SM mass than in FFM.