Back Injuries in Golfers: A Simple Preventive Program

Athletic Therapy Today

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 44-50

  Hartman, Catherine A ^a   Hartman, Dwight H ^b   Jones, Margaret T ^c  

^a Dana Farber Cancer Institute   (United States)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Exercise Sci/Sport Studs SC ^*

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EID: 0002596432     PISSN: 10787895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/att.3.4.44     Document Type: Article

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