Insight into muscle activity during deep water running

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1958-1964

  Masumoto, Kenji ^a,b   Delion, David ^a   Mercer, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross training; Emg; Neuromuscular function; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS TRAINING; DEEP WATER RUNNING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RUNNING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMERSION; LEG; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RUNNING; THIGH; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349680411     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181a615ad     Document Type: Article

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