Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 633-640 , November 2010

The concept of ‘Organismic Asymmetry’ in sport science

  • Keith Davids

      Affiliations

    • School of Human Movement Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Lisbon, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Duarte Araújo

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Human Kinetics (FMH), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Received 13 October 2009 ,Revised 7 March 2010 ,Accepted 12 May 2010.

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PII: S1440-2440(10)00111-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2010.05.002

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Volume 13, Issue 6 , Pages 633-640 , November 2010

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