Stretching skeletal muscle.

<p>In a controlled limb lengthening model in rabbits, the radius and the ulna of the left forearm are lengthened by 4% inducing a stretch of 1.14 in the extensor digitorum lateralis muscle. Chronic eccentric muscle growth through sarcomerogenesis is characterized in situ using light diffraction imaging. Adopted with permission from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0045661#pone.0045661-Matano1" target="_blank">[8]</a>.