Return to play after thigh muscle injury in elite football players: Implementation and validation of the Munich muscle injury classification

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 769-774

  Ekstrand, Jan ^a   Askling, Carl ^b   Magnusson, Henrik ^a   Mithoefer, Kai ^c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; CLASSIFICATION; CONVALESCENCE; EUROPE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RUPTURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOCCER; SPORT INJURY; THIGH; VALIDATION STUDY; ARTICLE; HAMSTRING INJURIES; INJURY; MUSCLE DAMAGE/INJURIES; MUSCLE INJURY AND INFLAMMATION;

ABSENTEEISM; ATHLETIC INJURIES; EUROPE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; RUPTURE; SOCCER; THIGH; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

HAMSTRING INJURIES; MRI; MUSCLE DAMAGE/INJURIES; MUSCLE INJURY AND INFLAMMATION; SOCCER;

EID: 84880512774     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092092     Document Type: Article

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