Core muscle function during specific yoga poses

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 235-243

  Ni, Meng ^a   Mooney, Kiersten ^b   Harriell, Kysha ^a   Balachandran, Anoop ^a   Signorile, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b BalaVinyasa Yoga   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Rehabilitation; Yoga

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL OBLIQUE ABDOMINIS; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGISSIMUS THORACIS MUSCLE; MALE; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOGA; ADULT; BODY POSTURE; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; YOGA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898822983     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: 18736963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2014.01.007     Document Type: Article

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