Kinematic and kinetic comparison of baseball pitching among various levels of development

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1371-1375

  Fleisig, Glenn S ^a   Barrentine, Steve W ^a   Zheng, Nigel ^a   Escamilla, Rafael F ^b   Andrews, James R ^a  

^a AMERICAN SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b K lab   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Kinematics; Kinetics; Professional; Youth

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

BASEBALL PITCHING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARM; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DEVELOPMENT; ELBOW; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INJURY; JOINT; KINETICS; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOULDER; TORQUE; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; PHYSICAL FITNESS; ROTATION; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 0032836625     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(99)00127-X     Document Type: Article

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