Swing kinematics for male and female pro golfers

International Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 965-970

  Zheng, Naiquan ^a   Barrentine, S W ^b   Fleisig, C S ^b   Andrews, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Gender difference; LPGA; Motion analysis; PGA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; RANGE OF MOTION; RISK FACTOR; ROTATION; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; VELOCITY; WRIST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELBOW; FEMALE; GOLF; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTURE; SEX FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WRIST;

EID: 57749189412     PISSN: 01724622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1038732     Document Type: Article

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