Establishing normal values for lower extremity muscle length in college-age students

Physical Therapy in Sport

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 66-74

  Corkery, Marie ^a   Briscoe, Heather ^a   Ciccone, Nicole ^a   Foglia, Gina ^a   Johnson, Pamela ^a   Kinsman, Sean ^a   Legere, Lucas ^a   Lum, Brandon ^a   Canavan, Paul K ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active knee extension; Flexibility; Lower extremity muscle length; Modified Thomas test; Thomas test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; CALCULATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GONIOMETRY; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; KINEMATICS; LEG INJURY; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 33947617342     PISSN: 1466853X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ptsp.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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