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Sports Medicine and Biomechanics

Sex differences in elbow and wrist joint loading during the cartwheel and round off with different hand positions performed by young gymnasts

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Pages 1449-1456 | Accepted 31 Dec 2018, Published online: 11 Jan 2019

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