Large asymmetric hypertrophy of rectus abdominis muscle in professional tennis players

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Sanchis Moysi, Joaquin ^a   Idoate, Fernando ^b   Dorado, Cecilia ^a   Alayó, Santiago ^c   Calbet, Jose A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Clinica San Miguel   (Spain)

^c Hospital San Roque Maspalomas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; TENNIS; ATHLETE; BODY COMPOSITION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HYPERTROPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATHLETES; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; TENNIS;

EID: 79251511524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015858     Document Type: Article

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