Dynamic soft tissue mobilisation increases hamstring flexibility in healthy male subjects

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 594-598

  Hopper, Diana ^a   Deacon, S ^b   Das, S ^b   Jain, A ^b   Riddell, D ^b   Hall, T ^b   Briffa, K ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Curtin University of Technology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC SOFT TISSUE MOBILIZATION; EXERCISE; HAMSTRING; HAMSTRING FLEXIBILITY; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARD; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXERCISE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MASSAGE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLIABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 24644463356     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2004.011981     Document Type: Article

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