Effect of static stretching of muscles surrounding the knee on knee joint position sense

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 684-687

  Ghaffarinejad, Farahnaz ^a   Taghizadeh, Shohreh ^a   Mohammadi, Farshid ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATIC EXERCISE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 34948895045     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2006.032425     Document Type: Article

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