Effects of throwing overweight and underweight baseballs on throwing velocity and accuracy

Sports Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 259-272

  Escamilla, Rafael F ^a   Speer, Kevin P ^a   Fleisig, Glenn S ^b   Barrentine, Steven W ^b   Andrews, James R ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b AMERICAN SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARM EXERCISE; ARM MOVEMENT; BASEBALL; HUMAN; KINESIOLOGY; KINESIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SPORTS AND SPORT RELATED PHENOMENA; SPORTS MEDICINE; TRAINING; VELOCITY;

EID: 0034003959     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200029040-00004     Document Type: Review

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