Core stability measures as risk factors for lower extremity injury in athletes

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 926-934

  Leetun, Darin T ^a   Ireland, Mary Lloyd ^a   Willson, John D ^b,c   Ballantyne, Bryon T ^b   Davis, Irene McClay ^b,c  

^a Kentucky Sports Medicine   (United States)

^b Joyner Sportsmedicine Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basketball; Gender; Hip strength; Track; Trunk endurance

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BACK MUSCLE; BASKETBALL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; LEG INJURY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PELVIS; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUADRATUS LUMBORUM MUSCLE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BACK INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2642573488     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.MSS.0000128145.75199.C3     Document Type: Article

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