Guidelines for return to contact sports after transient quadriplegia

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1305, Issue , 1997, Pages 53-59

  Cantu, Robert C ^a  

^a EMERSON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Catastrophic injury; Quadriplegia; Return to play; Stenosis; Stingers

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TISSUE;

ASSESSMENT; CATASTROPHIC INJURY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RETURN TO PLAY; STENOSIS; STINGERS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030836181     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp11772s     Document Type: Review

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