1. Jumping height in former elite athletes
- Author
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Seppo Sarna, Heli Räty, Urho M. Kujala, and Jyrki A. Kettunen
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Sports medicine ,Weight Lifting ,Physiology ,Osteoarthritis ,medicine.disease_cause ,Running ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Jumping ,Physiology (medical) ,Arthropathy ,Soccer ,medicine ,Humans ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Elite athletes ,Knee ,Muscle, Skeletal ,Exercise ,Aged ,030222 orthopedics ,Leg ,Hip ,biology ,Athletes ,business.industry ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Explosive strength ,030229 sport sciences ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Osteoarthritis, Knee ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Knee pain ,Physical therapy ,medicine.symptom ,business ,human activities ,Sports - Abstract
To evaluate lower-limb explosive strength with respect to lifetime athletic activity, we measured vertical jumping height on a contact mat in former male runners (n = 28), soccer players (n = 31), weightlifters (n = 29) and shooters (n = 29) (age range 45–68 years). There were no statistically significant age-adjusted sport-group differences in jumping height, but differences by sport were evident among the subgroup of athletes without hip or knee osteoarthritis (n = 65) (P
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- 1999