Soccer attenuates the asymmetry of rectus abdominis muscle observed in non-athletes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Idoate, Fernando ^a   Calbet, Jose A L ^b   Izquierdo, Mikel ^c   Sanchis Moysi, Joaquin ^b  

^a Clinica San Miguel   (Spain)

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

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORT; TREND STUDY; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ATHLETES; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SOCCER;

EID: 79955564149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019022     Document Type: Article

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