Sports massage: An overview

Athletic Therapy Today

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 67-69

  Tessier, Dorothy Grace ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; COMPETITION; MASSAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REHYDRATION; REVIEW; SPORT; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 25444477808     PISSN: 10787895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/att.10.5.67     Document Type: Review

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