Interaction of the Human Body and Surfaces of Different Stiffness during Drop Jumps

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 451-459

  Arampatzis, Adamantios ^a   Stafilidis, Savvas ^a   Morey Klapsing, Gaspar ^a   Brüggemann, Gert Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Energy conversion; Leg stiffness; Mechanical energy; Strain energy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; ENERGY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STIFFNESS; JUMPING; KINEMATICS; MASS; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GYMNASTICS; HUMANS; JOINTS; MUSCLES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542286595     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000117166.87736.0A     Document Type: Article

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