Ultrasound as a primary evaluation tool of bone stress injuries in elite track and field athletes

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 915-919

  Papalada, Agapi ^a   Malliaropoulos, Nikolaos ^a   Tsitas, Kostas ^a   Kiritsi, Olga ^a   Padhiar, Nat ^b   Del Buono, Angelo ^c   Maffulli, Nicola ^b  

^a National Track and Field Centre   (Greece)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

athletes; bone stress injuries; reliability; therapeutic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPORT; STRESS FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TRACK AND FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859493313     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546512437334     Document Type: Article

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