Glenohumeral range of motion and stiffness in professional baseball pitchers

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-26

  Borsa, Paul A ^a,c   Dover, Geoffrey C ^a   Wilk, Kevin E ^b   Reinold, Michael M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Champion Sports Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

External rotation; Instrumented arthrometer; Internal rotation; Shoulder; Static stability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROMETRY; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SHOULDER; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT STIFFNESS; KINEMATICS; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER;

ADULT; BASEBALL; HUMANS; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30344435919     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000180890.69932.15     Document Type: Article

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