Ballistic movement performance in karate athletes

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1366-1373

  Zehr, E Paul ^a,b   Sale, Digby G ^a,b   Dowling, James J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceleration; EMG; Torque; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESIOLOGY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MARTIAL ARTS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TORQUE;

EID: 0030854424     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199710000-00014     Document Type: Article

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