Return to competitive football after major knee surgery: More questions than answers?

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1209-1216

  Bizzini, Mario ^a   Silvers, Holly Jacinda ^b  

^a SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^b Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

criteria; football specific; prevention; return to sport; timing

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONVALESCENCE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; KNEE INJURIES; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOCCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; SOCCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84904067531     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.909603     Document Type: Article

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