Multi-joint coordination in ballet dancers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-84

  Thullier, Francine ^a   Moufti, Hicham ^a  

^a Lab Neurosci l'Homme en Mouvement   (France)

Author keywords

Dancers; Foot drawing; Kinematics; Motor control; Redundancy problem; Synergies

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; BALLET DANCER; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR COORDINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DANCING; FOOT JOINTS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 5644235493     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.08.011     Document Type: Article

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