Gymnastic wrist injuries

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 289-295

  Webb, Brian G ^a   Rettig, Lance A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; COMPRESSION; HUMAN; LUNOTRIQUETRAL IMPINGEMENT; MECHANICAL TORSION; MOTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; REVIEW; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SCAPHOID IMPACTION SYNDROME; SPORT INJURY; STRESS FRACTURE; TRAINING; TRIANGULAR FIBROCARTILAGE; TRIANGULAR FIBROCARTILAGE COMPLEX TEAR; ULNAR IMPACT SYNDROME; WEIGHT BEARING; WRIST FRACTURE; WRIST GANGLION; WRIST INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE; INJURY; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; ORTHOTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GYMNASTICS; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 58149184350     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181870471     Document Type: Review

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