Upper Limb Biomechanics During the Volleyball Serve and Spike

Sports Health

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 368-374

  Reeser, Jonathan C ^a   Fleisig, Glenn S ^b   Bolt, Becky ^b   Ruan, Mianfang ^c  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^b AMERICAN SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elbow; Kinematics; Kinetics; Overuse; Shoulder; Volleyball

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856142075     PISSN: 19417381     EISSN: 19410921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1941738110374624     Document Type: Article

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