Return to basketball and soccer after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in competitive school-aged athletes

Sports Health

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 236-241

  Shelbourne, K Donald ^a   Sullivan, A Nichole ^a   Bohard, Katie ^a   Gray, Tinker ^a   Urch, Scott E ^a  

^a Shelborne Knee Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anterior cruciate ligament; Gender; Reinjury; Return to sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051733754     PISSN: 19417381     EISSN: 19410921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1941738109334275     Document Type: Article

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