Lower-limb coordination and shoulder joint mechanics in the tennis serve

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 308-315

  Reid, MacHar ^a,b   Elliott, Bruce ^a   Alderson, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Sport Science Division Tennis   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leg drive; Overuse; Shoulder loading; Sporting injury

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENNIS; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION; BIOMECHANICS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHOULDER JOINT; TENNIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 38349162605     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e31815c6d61     Document Type: Article

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