Muscle, Ligaments and Tendons Journal. Basic principles and recommendations in clinical and field science research

Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 250-252

  Padulo, Johnny ^a   Oliva, Francesco ^b   Frizziero, Antonio ^c   Maffulli, Nicola ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS CNMSS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Best practice; Case report; Design; Ethical standard; Experimental approach; Performance indicators; Reliability of the measures; Sample size; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894500488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22404554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11138/mltj/2013.3.4.250     Document Type: Article

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