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Quality of life among individuals with rugby-related spinal cord injuries in South Africa: a descriptive cross-sectional study

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  • Marelise Badenhorst Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • James Craig Brown Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mike I Lambert Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Willem Van Mechelen Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Evert Verhagen Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Evert Verhagen; e.verhagen{at}vumc.nl
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Badenhorst M, Brown JC, Lambert MI, et al
Quality of life among individuals with rugby-related spinal cord injuries in South Africa: a descriptive cross-sectional study
BMJ Open 2018;8:e020890. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020890

Publication history

  • Received November 30, 2017
  • Revised April 10, 2018
  • Accepted June 6, 2018
  • First published June 30, 2018.
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December 08, 2023
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