Investigation of growth, development, and factors associated with injury in elite schoolboy footballers: prospective study

Amanda Johnson; Patrick Joseph Doherty; Anthony Freemont

Investigation of growth, development, and factors associated with injury in elite schoolboy footballers: prospective study

Amanda Johnson, Patrick Joseph Doherty, Anthony Freemont

Health Sciences

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Abstract

To investigate the differences between skeletal and chronological age and to assess the role of maturity status, anthropometric data, and football related variables in explaining injury statistics in elite schoolboy footballers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	b490
Journal	BMJ
Volume	338
Issue number	7696
Publication status	Published - 21 Mar 2009

Keywords

Adolescent
Age Determination by Skeleton
Age Distribution
Bone Development
Child
Growth
Humans
Male
Prospective Studies
Soccer

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