Recognition and rehabilitation of the female athlete triad/tetrad: A multidisciplinary approach

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 190-199

  Temme, Kate E ^a   Hoch, Anne Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FOLIC ACID; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC REHABILITATION; BALLET DANCER; BODY IMAGE; BONE DENSITY; BULIMIA; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; DEHYDRATION; DEPRESSION; DRY SKIN; EATING DISORDER; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE ATHLETE TRIAD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHALAMIC AMENORRHEA; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALABSORPTION; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIMARY AMENORRHEA; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA; SKIN TOXICITY; THERMOREGULATION;

AMENORRHEA; ATHLETIC INJURIES; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SYNDROME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84884547452     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e318296190b     Document Type: Article

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