A preliminary study of patellar tendon torques during jumping

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 360-368

  Elvin, Niell ^a   Elvin, Alex ^b   Scheffer, Cornie ^c   Arnoczky, Steven ^d   Dillon, Edwin ^c   Erasmus, P J ^c  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jump landing; Jump takeoff; Patellar tendon forces; Tendinopathy

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LANDING; TORQUE;

JUMP TAKEOFF; LINEAR CORRELATION; PATELLAR TENDON; STRONG CORRELATION; TENDINOPATHY; WEAK CORRELATION;

TENDONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBER OPTIC BIOSENSOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUMPING; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; PATELLA TENDON; TORQUE;

EID: 70350731117     PISSN: 10658483     EISSN: 15432688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jab.25.4.360     Document Type: Article

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