Injury to recreational and professional cricket players: Circumstances, type and potential for intervention

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2094-2098

  Walker, H L ^a   Carr, D J ^a,b   Chalmers, D J ^a   Wilson, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive and recreational; Cricket injury; Hospitalisation; Injury patterns; PPE

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION;

COMPETITIVE AND RECREATIONAL; CRICKET INJURY; DOMINANT MECHANISM; HOSPITALISATION; INJURY PATTERN; INJURY PREVENTION; NUMBER OF INJURIES; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; LEG INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RECREATION; RISK FACTOR; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM INJURIES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RECREATION; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049409308     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.06.022     Document Type: Article

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