Prevalent Morphometric Vertebral Fractures in Professional Male Rugby Players

There is an ongoing concern about the risk of injury to the spine in professional rugby players. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of vertebral fracture using vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) imaging in professional male rugby pla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hind, Karen, Birrell, Fraser, Beck, Belinda
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4028209/