Return to sports activity by athletes after treatment of spondylolysis

World Journal of Orthopedics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-30

  Iwamoto, Jun ^a   Sato, Yoshihiro ^b   Takeda, Tsuyoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Hideo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Mitate Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Athletes; Conservative treatment; Literature review; Return to play; Spondylolysis; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876906849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22185836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5312/wjo.v1.i1.26     Document Type: Article

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