RugbySmart: Challenges and Lessons from the Implementation of a Nationwide Sports Injury Prevention Partnership Programme

Overview

Journal Sports Med

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2019 Sep 12

PMID 31506902

Citations 4

Authors

Kenneth Quarrie

Simon Gianotti

Ian Murphy

Peter Harold

Danielle Salmon

Joseph Harawira

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