Youth Sports Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Knee Injury Epidemiology: Who Is Getting Injured? In What Sports? When?

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 691-706

  Shea, Kevin G ^a,b   Grimm, Nathan L ^a,b   Ewing, Christopher K ^c   Aoki, Stephen K ^b  

^a Department of Orthopaedics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL; Epidemiology; Knee Injury; Youth Sports

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; BASKETBALL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; KNEE INJURY; KNEE SURGERY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; SPORTS MEDICINE; VOLLEYBALL; WRESTLING;

EID: 80055073544     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: 1556228X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2011.07.004     Document Type: Review

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