Adolescent baseball pitching technique: A detailed three-dimensional biomechanical analysis

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1347-1357

  Nissen, Carl W ^a,b,e   Westwell, Melany ^a   Õunpuu, Sylvia ^a   Patel, Mausam ^a   Tate, Janet P ^b   Pierz, Kristan ^a,b   Burns, Joseph P ^c   Bicos, James ^d  

^a Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JRSI Sports Medicine   (United States)

^e Elite Sports Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint angles; Joint moments; Kinematics; Kinetics; Motion analysis; Overhead sports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; FOREARM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PELVIS; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WRIST;

ADOLESCENT; ARM; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 34548322791     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e318064c88e     Document Type: Article

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