A three-dimensional analysis of the contributions of upper limb joint movements to horizontal racket head velocity at ball impact during tennis serving

Sports Biomechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 418-433

  Tanabe, Satoru ^a   Ito, Akira ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND SPORT SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contribution; Internal rotation; Joint movement; Pronation; Service; Tennis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; JOINT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENNIS;

ADULT; ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TENNIS;

EID: 38449088535     PISSN: 14763141     EISSN: 17526116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14763140701491500     Document Type: Article

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