Lower-limb activity during the power serve in tennis: Effects of performance level

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1021-1029

  Girard, Olivier ^a   Micallef, Jean Paul ^b   Millet, Gregoire P ^a  

^a Faculty of Sport Sciences   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; EMG; Ground reaction force; Knee extensors muscles; Racquet sports; Stretch shortening cycle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SKILL; TENNIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRANCE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TENNIS;

EID: 20544474903     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000171619.99391.bb     Document Type: Article

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