Baseball: Influence of pelvis rotation styles on baseball pitching mechanics

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-84

  Wight, Jeff ^a   Richards, James ^a   Hall, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball pitching; Kinematics; Kinetics; Pelvis; Throwing velocity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PELVIS; PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; PELVIS; ROTATION; SHOULDER; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 3142702714     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140408522831     Document Type: Article

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