Effects of gender and foot-landing techniques on lower extremity kinematics during drop-jump landings

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 289-299

  Cortes, Nelson ^a   Onate, James ^a   Abrantes, João ^b   Gagen, Linda ^a   Dowling, Elizabeth ^a   Van Lunen, Bonnie ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

And kinematics; Knee; Landing

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MOTION ESTIMATION;

ANKLE DORSIFLEXION; KNEE FLEXION; MOTION PATTERNS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOT; FOREFOOT; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALGUS KNEE; VARUS KNEE;

EID: 36849074721     PISSN: 10658483     EISSN: 15432688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jab.23.4.289     Document Type: Article

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