Limited hip and knee flexion during landing is associated with increased frontal plane knee motion and moments

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-146

  Pollard, Christine D ^a   Sigward, Susan M ^a   Powers, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL; Injury prevention; Joint moments; Stiff landing

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; DECELERATION PHASE; EFFECT SIZE; FRONTAL PLANES; GROUND REACTION FORCES; HIP FLEXION; INJURY PREVENTION; JOINT MOMENT; KNEE FLEXIONS; KNEE INJURY; KNEE MOTION; KNEE VALGUS; SAGITTAL PLANE; SOCCER PLAYER; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; BENDING STRENGTH; BIOMECHANICS; GAIT ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; LANDING; LIGAMENTS; SURFACE REACTIONS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE FUNCTION; LANDING; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SOCCER; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73749086043     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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