Magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine in asymptomatic professional fast bowlers in cricket

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1111-1116

  Ranson, Craig A ^a   Kerslake, R W ^b   Burnett, A F ^c   Batt, M E ^b   Abdi, S ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BONE ATROPHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPINE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; STRESS FRACTURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; FRACTURES, STRESS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 23644444813     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.87B8.16405     Document Type: Article

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