Fall and injury incidence rates of jockeys while racing in Ireland, France and Britain

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 533-539

  Forero Rueda, Manuel A ^a   Halley, Walter L ^b   Gilchrist, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Turf Club   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Concussion; Equestrian; Head injury; Horse racing; Jockey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONCUSSION; FALLING; FRANCE; HEAD INJURY; HORSE RACING; HORSEBACK RIDING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOCKEY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; CLASSIFICATION; HORSE; INJURY SCALE; IRELAND; MEDICAL LEAVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ANIMALS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HORSES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; IRELAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 77950297070     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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