Upper extremity sports injury: Risk factors in comparison to lower extremity injury in more than 25 000 cases

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 256-263

  Sytema, Renee ^a   Dekker, Rienk ^a,b   Dijkstra, Pieter U ^a,b   Ten Duis, Hendrik J ^a   Van Der Sluis, Corry K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

athletic injuries; epidemiology; lower extremity; risk factors; sports; upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM FRACTURE; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG FRACTURE; LEG INJURY; LIMB INJURY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIING; SPORT INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SPORTS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 77954614287     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e3181e71e71     Document Type: Article

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