When golf hurts: Musculoskeletal problems common to golfers

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 362-365

  Wadsworth, L Tyler ^a  

^a Illini Sports Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTHROPLASTY; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ELBOW INJURY; EPICONDYLITIS; EXERCISE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KINETICS; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE TRAINING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; RECREATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SHOULDER INJURY; SHOULDER PAIN; SPORT INJURY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BACK INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; ELBOW; GOLF; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; SHOULDER;

EID: 36749026225     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0052-5     Document Type: Review

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