Why is the humeral retroversion of throwing athletes greater in dominant shoulders than in nondominant shoulders?

Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 571-575

  Yamamoto, Nobuyuki ^a   Itoi, Eiji ^a   Minagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Urayama, Masakazu ^a   Saito, Hidetomo ^a   Seki, Nobutoshi ^a   Iwase, Takenobu ^b   Kashiwaguchi, Shinji ^b   Matsuura, Tetsuya ^c  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yoshinogawa   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; ELBOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMERUS; HUMERUS HEAD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; ELBOW JOINT; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748426174     PISSN: 10582746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jse.2005.06.009     Document Type: Article

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