PM&R
Volume 2, Issue 7 , Pages 619-624 , July 2010

Skateboarding Injuries in Vienna: Location, Frequency, and Severity

  • Mohammad Keilani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical University of Vienna, Austria⁎
    • ,
  • Christoph Krall, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Medical Statistics, Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria†
    • ,
  • Lucas Lipowec

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria‡
    • ,
  • Martin Posch, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Medical Statistics, Core Unit for Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria§
    • ,
  • Tanya Sedghi Komanadj, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria∥
    • ,
  • Richard Crevenna, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: R.C.

Received 25 November 2009 ,Accepted 13 April 2010.

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PII: S1934-1482(10)00342-4

doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2010.04.022

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