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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedEpidemiology of anterior cruciate ligament ruptures in First League soccer players.(Part VI: sports medicine)
Journal of Sports Sciences, June, 2004 by Nanni, G.; Roi, G.S.; Tavana, R.; Tencone, F.
Data on the epidemiology of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures of professional soccer players, which required surgical treatment, are scarce in the literature. We asked the sports physicians of the 18 teams competing in the Italian First League 2002-2003 Championship to administer a questionnaire to their players.
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The questionnaire included personal (age, role) and medical items on injuries of the knee (data and modality of the injury: i.e. contact or non-contact trauma and occurrence during training, official or nonofficial games; diagnosis, surgical technique for ACL ...
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