Fifth metatarsal fractures among male professional footballers: A potential career-ending disease

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 754-758

  Ekstrand, Jan ^a   Van Dijk, C Niek ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVALESCENCE; EUROPE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METATARSAL BONE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOCCER; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOT INJURY; FRACTURE; INJURY; STRESS FRACTURE; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; METATARSAL BONES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; SOCCER; YOUNG ADULT;

ATHLETICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOT INJURIES; SOCCER; STRESS FRACTURE;

EID: 84880512390     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092096     Document Type: Article

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