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Mark W Creaby1, Sharon J Dixon

  • 1Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, School of Physiotherapy, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. mcreaby@unimelb.edu.au

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
|August 8, 2008
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