Return-to-play decisions after cervical spine injuries

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 56-61

  Ellis, Jessica L ^b   Gottlieb, Jamie E ^a  

^a South Bend Orthopaedic Associates   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTHRODESIS; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; JOINT INSTABILITY; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; MUSCLE STRAIN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLAY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPORT INJURY; SPRAIN; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; SPINAL INJURIES; SPORTS;

EID: 33846941978     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0013-z     Document Type: Review

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