The correlation of segment accelerations and impact forces with knee angle in jump landing

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 203-212

  Elvin, Niell G ^a   Elvin, Alex A ^b   Arnoczky, Steven P ^c   Torry, Michael R ^d  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STEADMAN HAWKINS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Jumping height; Landing ground reaction

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CONTACT ANGLE; CORRELATION THEORY; IMPACT STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS;

GROUND REACTION FORCE; JUMP LANDING; JUMPING HEIGHT; KNEE ANGLE; SHOCK DECELERATION;

BIOMECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FORCE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THIGH; TIBIA; TRUNK;

EID: 34548274984     PISSN: 10658483     EISSN: 15432688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jab.23.3.203     Document Type: Article

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