Relationship between maximum shoulder external rotation angle during throwing and physical variables

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-53

  Miyashita, Koji ^a   Urabe, Yukio ^a   Kobayashi, Hirokazu ^a   Yokoe, Kiyoshi ^a   Koshida, Sentaro ^a   Kawamura, Morio ^a   Ida, Kunio ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elbow; Injury prevention; Shoulder; Throwing

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749146855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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