Early sport specialisation, does it lead to long-term problems?

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  British Journal of Sports Medicine

• Publication date

  2012-12-20

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092005PMID 23258850
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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