The Effects of Knee Contact Angle on Impact Forces and Accelerations

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 832-837

  Derrick, Timothy R ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective mass; Injury; Performance; Shock attenuation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTACT ANGLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; INJURY; KINEMATICS; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; RUNNING;

EID: 2342631159     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000126779.65353.CB     Document Type: Conference Paper

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