Injuries to individuals participating in mountain and wilderness sports: A review

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 530-536

  Mort, Alasdair ^a   Godden, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Injury; Mountain; Wilderness

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; LIMB INJURY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOUNTAINEERING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WILDERNESS;

ATHLETES; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; WILDERNESS;

EID: 82955251053     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: 15363724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e318234be97     Document Type: Review

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