Reduced humeral torsion predicts throwing-related injury in adolescent baseballers

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 392-396

  Whiteley, Rod J ^a   Adams, Roger D ^a   Nicholson, Leslie L ^a   Ginn, Karen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Humerus; Injury; Retrotorsion; Throwing; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASEBALL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMERUS; MALE; MECHANICAL TORSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SPORT INJURY; TRAINING; FORECASTING;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BASEBALL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HUMERUS; TORSION, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77953958381     PISSN: 14402440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsams.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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