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Volume 1, Issue 9 , Pages 816-819 , September 2009

Running Shoe Selection Criteria Among Adolescent Cross-Country Runners

Presented at 2008 AAPM&R Annual Assembly in San Diego, CA.

  • Ryan C. Enke, MD

      Affiliations

    • Rockford Orthopedic Associates, 324 Roxbury Rd., Rockford, IL 61107†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: R.C.E.
    • ,
  • Edward R. Laskowski, MD

      Affiliations

    • Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center; Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN‡
    • ,
  • Kristine M. Thomsen

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN§

Received 13 November 2008 ,Accepted 22 July 2009.

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 This work was supported by a Small Grant Award 90814001, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.07.011

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