Iliopsoas and gluteal muscles are asymmetric in tennis players but not in soccer players

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

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

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

^b Clinica San Miguel   (Spain)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; TENNIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLES; SOCCER; TENNIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960903927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022858     Document Type: Article

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