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Murat Karabulut1, Brittany Esparza2, Imtiaz M Dowllah2

  • 1Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX, USA - murat.karabulut@utrgv.edu.

The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness
|December 14, 2020
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