Influence of humeral torsion on interpretation of posterior shoulder tightness measures in overhead athletes

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 366-371

  Myers, Joseph B ^a,b   Oyama, Sakiko ^a   Goerger, Benjamin M ^a   Rucinski, Terri Jo ^c   Blackburn, J Troy ^a,b   Creighton, R Alexander ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Humeral torsion; Range of motion; Shoulder; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMERUS TORSION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR SHOULDER TIGHTNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER;

BASEBALL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MUSCLE TONUS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT; TORSION, MECHANICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349690581     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181b544f6     Document Type: Article

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