Getting to the point: Injury patterns and medical care in competitive fencing

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 303-307

  Harmer, Peter A ^a  

^a WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ABRASION; BALLISTICS; BLISTER; BRACE; COMPETITION; CONTUSION; FENCING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LACERATION; LIMB; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUNCTURE; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; SPRAIN; UNITED STATES; WOUND; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACERATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149182024     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e318187083b     Document Type: Review

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