Injuries and medical issues in synchronized olympic sports

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 255-261

  Mountjoy, Margo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ASTHMA; ATHLETE; DIVING; DOPING; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IRON DEFICIENCY; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKILL; SPORT INJURY; SWIMMING; TRAINING;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; HUMANS; SWIMMING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 73349131061     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181b84a09     Document Type: Review

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