Analysis of karate injuries sustained in 295 contests
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Incidence and nature of karate injuries
2006, Joint Bone SpineCitation Excerpt :We had no information on the competition activities of our study participants, however, so that our data on competition-related injuries are difficult to interpret. The few earlier studies (Table 5) focused on injuries sustained while competing and disregarded training [1–16]. Nevertheless, they found incidences similar to that in our study.
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