Coactivation of knee muscles during isokinetic concentric and eccentric knee extensions and flexions in prepubertal gymnasts

Isokinetics and Exercise Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 137-144

  Bassa, Helen ^b   Kotzamanidis, Christos ^a   Siatras, Theophanis ^b   Mameletzi, Dimitra ^b   Skoufas, Dimitrios ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Children; Coactivation; EMG; Gymnast; Isokinetic; Knee muscles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; KNEE; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPORT; TRAINING; VELOCITY;

EID: 0036947760     PISSN: 09593020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ies-2002-0094     Document Type: Article

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