Epidemiological features of high school baseball injuries in the United States, 2005-2007

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1181-1187

  Collins, Christy L ^a   Comstock, R Dawn ^a,b,c  

^a THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Information Technology

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; High school; Iinjury; Sports

Indexed keywords

ANKLE INJURY; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FACE INJURY; FINGER INJURY; HAND INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH INJURY; MUSCLE STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER INJURY; SPORT INJURY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BASEBALL; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48949093490     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-2572     Document Type: Article

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