Quantification of quadriceps and hamstring antagonist activity

Sports Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-62

  Kellis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; JOINT STABILITY; KNEE; KNEE CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; VELOCITY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTIFACTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERTION; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS;

EID: 0031962365     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-199825010-00004     Document Type: Article

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