Does motor imagery enhance stretching and flexibility?

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 291-298

  Guillot, Aymeric ^a   Tolleron, Coralie ^a   Collet, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Mental practice; Motor imagery; Stretching

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LEG; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLIABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SHOULDER; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRETCHING EXERCISE; SWIMMING;

ADOLESCENT; ANKLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); LEG; MENTAL PROCESSES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PLIABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER; SWIMMING;

EID: 77949357444     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410903473828     Document Type: Article

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