Indoor heated swimming pools: The vulnerability of some infants to develop spinal asymmetries years later

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 123, Issue , 2006, Pages 151-155

  McMaster, Marianne E ^a   Lee, A J ^b   Burwell, R G ^c  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environment; etiology; prevention; Scoliosis; swimming pools

Indexed keywords

LAKES;

ADOLESCENT IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; CHEMICAL RISKS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; ETIOLOGY; PREVENTION; RISK FACTORS; SCOLIOSIS;

SWIMMING POOLS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; SPINE DISEASE; SWIMMING POOL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS; MALE; SCOTLAND; SPINAL CURVATURES; SWIMMING POOLS;

EID: 37349072873     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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