Injuries prevalence in elite male artistic gymnasts

• Main Authors: Natália Batista Albuquerque GOULART (Author), Morgana LUNARDI (Author), Jennifer Faraon WALTRICK (Author), Annelise LINK (Author), Leandro GARCIAS (Author), Mônica de Oliveira MELO (Author), João Carlos OLIVA (Author), Marco Aurélio VAZ (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola de Educação Física e Esporte da Universidade de São Paulo (EEFEUSP), 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the injuries prevalence in men elite artistic gymnasts. Twenty Brazilian senior gymnasts, aged 23.1 ± 6.5 years, 13.9 ± 5.0 years of practice and 36.5 ± 4.7 hours per week training, participated in this study. The athletes answered a morbidity qu...