Publications by authors named "Christian Clarup"
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- Trunk and shoulder strength play a crucial role in athletic performance, stability, power output, and injury prevention, yet there's a lack of research on their relationship in sports requiring upper body mechanics.
- This study focused on 39 male athletes from mixed martial arts, tennis, swimming, and baseball, measuring their trunk and shoulder rotational strength through maximal voluntary contraction tests.
- Findings revealed that different sports exhibit unique correlations between trunk and shoulder strength, with tennis players showing a strong link between trunk asymmetry and shoulder rotation, while swimmers had the best overall interaction between the two.
In light of previous research highlighting the prevalence of asymmetries in soccer players and possible links to injury risks, there is a crucial gap in the biomechanical understanding of complex relationships between lower extremity and trunk asymmetries in elite soccer players. The purpose of this study was to investigate the level, relationships, and differences among twelve different parameters of strength, morphological, and neuromuscular asymmetries in elite soccer players. Elite male soccer players ( = 25, age 21.
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