Necessary precautions in measuring correct vertical jumping height by means of force plate measurements

Ergonomics

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 814-818

  Vanrenterghem, Jos ^a   De Clercq, Dirk ^a   Van Cleven, Pierre ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Force plate measurements; Ground reaction forces; Vertical jumping height

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HEIGHT MEASUREMENT;

ERGONOMICS;

ACCELERATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY MOVEMENT; FORCE; GAIT; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SAFETY;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BELGIUM; BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LEG; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS;

EID: 0035918840     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130118100     Document Type: Article

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