Maturity status of youth football players: A noninvasive estimate

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1044-1052

  Malina, Robert M ^a,e   Cumming, Sean P ^b   Morano, Peter J ^c   Barron, Mary ^d   Miller, Susan J ^d  

^a TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Box 140 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Maturation; Percentage of mature height; Young athletes; Youth sports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATURITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; FOOTBALL; GROWTH; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN;

EID: 20544460791     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000171622.45134.cb     Document Type: Article

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