Women athletes with menstrual irregularity have increased musculoskeletal injuries

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1986, Pages 374-379

  Lloyd, Tom ^a,b   Triantafyllou, Steven J ^a,b   Baker, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Houts, Peter S ^a,b   Whiteside, James A ^a,b   Kalenak, Alexander ^a,b   Stumpf, Paul G ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JERSEY SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Menstrual athletes; Musculoskeletal injuries; Women athletes

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOVULATION; ATHLETE; BONE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUSCLE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; RUNNING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT INJURY;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; EXERTION; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MENSTRUATION DISTURBANCES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RUNNING; SPORTS;

EID: 0022455107     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/00005768-198608000-00002     Document Type: Article

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