Relationship between the length of the forefoot bones and performance in male sprinters.
Although recent studies have reported that the forefoot bones are longer in sprinters than in non-sprinters, these reports included a relatively small number of subjects. Moreover, while computer simulation suggested that longer forefoot bones may contribute to higher sprint performance by enhancing...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 27; no. 12; pp. 1673 - 1681 |
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| Formato: | diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article |
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Dec2017
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