Is stretching for sports performance still useful? A review of the literature;Les exercices d'étirement dans la pratique sportive ont-ils encore leur raison d'être? Une revue de la littérature

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 1, Issue 28, 2005, Pages 1830-1834

  Gremion, Gérald ^a  

^a Hopital Orthopedique de la Suisse Romande   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; DANCING; DIVING; EXERCISE; HEALING; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; REVIEW; RUNNING; SPORT INJURY; TENDON; VASCULARIZATION; INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLIABILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLIABILITY; SPORTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 24944541424     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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