Amputees and sports: A systematic review

Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 721-740

  Bragaru, Mihail ^a   Dekker, Rienk ^a   Geertzen, Jan H B ^a   Dijkstra, Pieter U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amputation surgery; Sports

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICS; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SPORT; SPORT INJURY;

AMPUTATION; AMPUTEES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPORTS;

EID: 80051707789     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11590420-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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