Tendons transmit tensile load from muscles to the skeleton. Differential loading across a tendon can occur, especially when it contains subtendons originating from distinct muscles. Tendon shear wave speed has previously been shown to reflect local tensile stress. Hence, a tool that measures spatial variations in wave speed may reflect differential loading within a tendon during human movement.
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