The relationship between age and baseball pitching kinematics in professional baseball pitchers

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 265-270

  Dun, Shouchen ^a   Fleisig, Glenn S ^a   Loftice, Jeremy ^a   Kingsley, David ^a   Andrews, James R ^a  

^a AMERICAN SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Baseball; Biomechanics; Kinematics; Pitch

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); MOTION ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BASEBALL PITCHING KINEMATICS; MOTION ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CAPACITIES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

KINEMATICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PELVIS; PITCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRUNK; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 33845634866     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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