Gender differences in time-frequency EMG analysis of unanticipated cutting maneuvers

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1795-1804

  Beaulieu, Mélanie L ^a   Lamontagne, Mario ^a,b   Xu, Lanyi ^c  

^a School of Human Kinetics 210   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior cruciate ligament; Biomechanics; Injury; Neuromuscular strategy; Soccer; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; KNEE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SEX FACTORS; SOCCER;

EID: 58149277245     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31817b8e9e     Document Type: Article

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