Brachial plexus lesions after backpack carriage in young adults

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 452, Issue , 2006, Pages 205-209

  Mäkelä, Jyrki P ^a,b   Ramstad, Raimo ^b   Mattila, Ville ^a   Pihlajamäki, Harri ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR MILITARY MEDICINE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NERVE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SOLDIER; SYMPTOM; TRAINING; WEIGHT BEARING; ADOLESCENT; BACK; INCIDENCE; INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACK; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33750632689     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000229338.29277.29     Document Type: Article

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