Golf clubs: Hidden home hazard for children

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 86, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 747-753

  Ridenour, Marcella V ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HEAD INJURY; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INJURY; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECREATION; SPORT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEATH CERTIFICATES; GOLF; HUMANS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032088218     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.86.3.747     Document Type: Article

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