Muscle utilization patterns vary by skill levels of the practitioners across specific yoga poses (asanas)

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 662-669

  Ni, Meng ^a   Mooney, Kiersten ^b   Balachandran, Anoop ^a   Richards, Luca ^b   Harriell, Kysha ^a   Signorile, Joseph F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b BalaVinyasa Yoga   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asana; Electromyography; Yoga pose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKILL; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; UNITED STATES; VASTUS MEDIALIS MUSCLE; YOGA; YOGA POSE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

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

EID: 84906791453     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: 18736963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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