Rowing injuries

Sports Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 537-555

  Rumball, Jane S ^a   Lebrun, Constance M ^a   Di Ciacca, Stephen R ^a   Orlando, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SEX HORMONE;

AMENORRHEA; ANALGESIA; ARM INJURY; BIOMECHANICS; BODY COMPOSITION; BRACE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COSTOVERTEBRAL JOINT SUBLAXATION; DEQUERVAIN SYNDROME; EATING DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; ILIOTIBIAL BAND FRICTION SYNDROME; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERCOSTAL MUSCLE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; JOINT DISLOCATION; JOINT INJURY; KNEE PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OARSMEN WRIST; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT; PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SACROILIAC JOINT DYSFUNCTION; SHOULDER PAIN; SKIN ABRASION; SPONDYLOLYSIS; SPORT INJURY; STRESS FRACTURE; TENNIS ELBOW; TENOSYNOVITIS; TIETZE SYNDROME; WEIGHT LIFTING; WRIST INJURY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; CANADA; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 22344440224     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00007256-200535060-00005     Document Type: Review

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