Rotational motion changes in the glenohumeral joint of the adolescent/Little League baseball player

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 693-698

  Meister, Keith ^a,e   Day, Timothy ^b   Horodyski, Marybeth ^c   Kaminski, Thomas W ^d   Wasik, Michael P ^b   Tillman, Susan ^b  

^a TMI Sports Medicine and Orthopedics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e Texas Rangers Baseball Club   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball players; Glenohumeral joint; Little League; Rotational motion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; GROUPS BY AGE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOULDER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BASEBALL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATION; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 17844393087     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546504269936     Document Type: Article

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