Do community football players wear allocated protective equipment? Descriptive results from a randomised controlled trial

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 216-220

  Braham, R A ^a   Finch, C F ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTBALL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NECK INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SAFETY; SPORT; TOOTH INJURY; TRAINING; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HELMET; MOUTH PROTECTOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

FOOTBALL; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MOUTH PROTECTORS; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; VICTORIA;

EID: 16244415886     PISSN: 14402440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1440-2440(04)80011-2     Document Type: Article

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