Effect of arm swing direction on forward and backward jump performance

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2806-2815

  Hara, Mikiko ^a   Shibayama, Akira ^b   Arakawa, Hiroshi ^c   Fukashiro, Senshi ^c  

^a JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b The University of Tokyo ^*  (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arm swing direction; Backward jump; Forward jump; iEMG; Work

Indexed keywords

ARM SWING DIRECTION; BACKWARD JUMP; FORWARD JUMP; IEMG; WORK;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ADULT; ARM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM SWING; ARTICLE; BACKWARD JUMP; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FORWARD JUMP; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; LEG; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; VELOCITY; WORK;

ANKLE JOINT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JOINTS; KNEE JOINT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; SHOULDER JOINT; TORQUE;

EID: 51049110499     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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