Running biomechanics and lower limb strength associated with prior hamstring injury

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1942-1951

  Lee, Marcus J C ^a   Reid, Siobhan L ^a   Elliott, Bruce C ^a   Lloyd, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamometry; Eccentric action; Gait; Mechanics; Sprinting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMOMETER; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; GAIT; HAMSTRING; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOKINETIC EXERCISE; KINEMATICS; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB INJURY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RUNNING; TORQUE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RUNNING; THIGH; TORQUE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349678246     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181a55200     Document Type: Article

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