Body fatness and increased injury rates in high school football linemen

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-120

  Gómez, Jorge E ^a,b   Ross, Scott K ^b   Calmbach, Walter L ^b   Kimmel, Robert B ^c   Schmidt, David R ^c   Dhanda, Rahul ^b  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Orthoped Surg Assoc of S Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Body fat; Football; Injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTBALL; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; LIGAMENT INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPORT INJURY; THIGH; THORAX;

EID: 0031810613     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042752-199804000-00010     Document Type: Article

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