Keeping the body in play: Pain, injury, and socialization in male rugby

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-223

  Fenton, Lindsay T ^a   Pitter, Robert ^b  

^a Health Care Industry in Halifax   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Ethnography; Return to play; Sport

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953458974     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: 21683824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2010.10599668     Document Type: Article

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