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Nathan D Schilaty1, Nathaniel A Bates1, Timothy E Hewett2
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, United States; Sports Medicine Center, Mayo Clinic, United States; Department of Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, United States.
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
|December 18, 2017
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