Replacing a Swiss ball for an exercise bench causes variable changes in trunk muscle activity during upper limb strength exercises

Dynamic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lehman, Gregory J ^a   Gordon, Trish ^a   Langley, Jo ^a   Pemrose, Patricia ^a   Tregaskis, Sara ^a  

^a CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM EXERCISE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; MYOELECTRICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINE STABILIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWISS BALL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 23044439452     PISSN: 14765918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-5918-4-6     Document Type: Article

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