Stretching for Performance Enhancement

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 141-146

  McNeal, Jeni R ^b   Sands, William A ^a  

^a Eastern Washington University ^*

^b EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINESIOTHERAPY; PLIABILITY; REVIEW; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BIOMECHANICS; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; PLIABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPORTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745182523     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CSMR.0000306304.25944.07     Document Type: Article

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