The biomechanical demands of standing yoga poses in seniors: The Yoga empowers seniors study (YESS)

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Man Ying ^a   Yu, Sean S Y ^a   Hashish, Rami ^a   Samarawickrame, Sachithra D ^a   Kazadi, Leslie ^a   Greendale, Gail A ^b   Salem, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; EMG; Intervention; Lower extremity; Moment; Older adult

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRESCENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HIP; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; ONE LEGGED BALANCE; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER; SIDE STRETCH; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; WALKING; YOGA;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; YOGA;

EID: 84872021426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-8     Document Type: Article

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