Reducing ground reaction forces in gymnastics' landings may increase internal loading

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 671-678

  Mills, Chris ^a   Pain, Matthew T G ^b   Yeadon, Maurice R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activation; Forces; Impact; Muscle driven; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION; FORCES; GROUND REACTION FORCES; IMPACT; INTERNAL FORCES; INTERNAL LOADINGS; JOINT REACTION FORCES; MULTI-LAYER MODELS; MUSCLE ACTIVATIONS; MUSCLE FORCES; MUSCLE MODELS; SIMPLEX ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION; SUBJECT SPECIFICS; WOBBLING MASS;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BENDING MOMENTS; BONE; HUMAN FORM MODELS; MUSCLE; ROTATION;

LANDING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE BOWING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUND REACTION FORCE; JOINT FUNCTION; LOADING TEST; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TORQUE;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; GYMNASTICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 62749195181     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.01.019     Document Type: Article

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