Incidence of injury in professional mixed martial arts competitions

Journal of Sports Science and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue CSSI-1, 2006, Pages 136-142

  Bledsoe, Gregory H ^a   Hsu, Edbert B ^a   Grabowski, Jurek George ^a   Brill, Justin D ^a   Li, Guohua ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boxing; Brain injury; Jiu jitsu; Ultimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 49949117815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13032968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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