The relationship between previous hamstring injury and the concentric isokinetic knee muscle strength of irish gaelic footballers

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  O'Sullivan, Kieran ^a   O'Ceallaigh, Brian ^a   O'Connell, Kevin ^a   Shafat, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; ETHNIC GROUP; FOOTBALL; HAMSTRING; HAMSTRING INJURY; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT; SPORT INJURY;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCCER;

EID: 42049099429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-30     Document Type: Article

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