Sports and peripheral nerve injuries: Report of 190 injuries evaluation in a single electromyography laboratory

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1092-1094

  Krivickas, Lisa S ^a,b   Wilbourn, Asa J ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrodiagnosis; Injury; Nerve; Sports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MONONEUROPATHY; NERVE INJURY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT INJURY; ULNAR NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RADICULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031806815     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199808)21:8<1092::AID-MUS19>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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