Trends of stress fracture prevalence among Israel Defense Forces basic trainees

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 56-59

  Itskoviz, David ^a   Marom, Tal ^a   Ostfeld, Ishay ^a  

^a NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOLDIER; STRESS FRACTURE;

CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 78651296380     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00209     Document Type: Article

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