Muscle strength and qualitative jump-landing differences in male and female military cadets: The jump-ACL study

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 663-671

  Beutler, Anthony I ^a   de la Motte, Sarah J ^a   Marshall, Stephen W ^b   Padua, Darin A ^b   Boden, Barry P ^c  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c Orthopaedic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL injury risk; Jump landing; Motor patterns; Qualitative movement screen

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249094105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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