Gravitational moment correction in isokinetic dynamometry using anthropometric data

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 900-907

  Kellis, Eleftherios ^a   Baltzopoulos, Vasilios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

ERROR; GRAVITY; ISOKINETICS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DYNAMOMETRY; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ERGOMETRY; FOOT; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 0030016952     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199607000-00018     Document Type: Article

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