Chest Exercises: Movement and Loading of Shoulder, Elbow and Wrist Joints

• Main Authors: Pascal Schütz (Author), Pia Zimmer (Author), Fabian Zeidler (Author), Michael Plüss (Author), Katja Oberhofer (Author), Renate List (Author), Silvio Rene Lorenzetti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Injuries to the shoulder are very common in sports that involve overhead arm or throwing movements. Strength training of the chest muscles has the potential to protect the shoulder from injury. Kinematic and kinetic data were acquired in 20 healthy subjects (age: 24.9 ± 2.7 years) using motion captu...