The effect of stretching during warming-up on the flexibility of junior handball players

Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-149

  Zakas, A ^a   Vergou, A ^a   Grammatikopoulou, M G ^a   Zakas, N ^a   Sentelidis, T ^a   Vamvakoudis, S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exercise; Flexibility; Handball players; Motion; Muscle; Physiology; Skeletal; Sports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GONIOMETRY; HAMSTRING; HANDBALL PLAYER; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; NORMAL HUMAN; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STRETCHING; TRUNK; WARMING;

ADOLESCENT; ANKLE JOINT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLIABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPORTS;

EID: 0038726328     PISSN: 00224707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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