Maximizing physical activity in athletes with amputations

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 339-344

  Pepper, Michelle ^a   Willick, Stuart ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ADAPTATION; AMPUTATION; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; DISABLED PERSON; DISABLED SPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENDURANCE; ENERGY COST; FRACTURE; GAIT; HUMAN; LACERATION; LEISURE; LIMB PROSTHESIS; MUSCLE STRAIN; MYALGIA; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECREATION; REVIEW; SKIING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; SPRAIN; TRAINING; WHEELCHAIR; EXERCISE; MOTIVATION; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPORTS MEDICINE;

AMPUTEES; BIOMECHANICS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SPORTS; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 75549088302     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181c1db12     Document Type: Review

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