Injury patterns and injury rates in the circus arts an analysis of 5 years of data from cirque du soleil

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1143-1149

  Shrier, Ian ^a,g   Meeuwisse, Willem H ^b   Matheson, Gordon O ^c   Wingfield, Kristin ^d   Steele, Russell J ^a   Prince, François ^e   Hanley, James ^a   Montanaro, Michael ^f  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Saint Francis Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^g NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acrobat; Circus; Injury; Musician

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTS AND ILLUSTRATION; ATHLETE; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMING ARTIST; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 67649512477     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546508331138     Document Type: Article

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