Relationship of Shoulder Flexibility, Strength, and Endurance to Shoulder Pain in Competitive Swimmers

A common complaint of competitive swimmers is shoulder pain. The purposes of this study were to: 1) provide normative data on shoulder flexibility in swimmers, 2) determine if a correlation exists between shoulder flexibility and pain, and 3) determine the correlation between strength and endurance ratios to shoulder pain.

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