Report for: Injury in the National Basketball Association

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Title	Injury in the National Basketball Association
Published in	Sports Health, March 2010
DOI	10.1177/1941738109357303
Pubmed ID	23015949
Authors	Mark C. Drakos, Benjamin Domb, Chad Starkey, Lisa Callahan, Answorth A. Allen
Abstract	Injury patterns in elite athletes over long periods continue to evolve. The goal of this study was to review of the injuries and medical conditions afflicting athletes competing in the National Basketball Association (NBA) over a 17-year period.

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United States	18	39%
Canada	2	4%
France	2	4%
South Africa	1	2%
Switzerland	1	2%
Australia	1	2%
Armenia	1	2%
Chile	1	2%
Unknown	19	41%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	33	72%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	6	13%
Scientists	5	11%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	4%

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Country	Count	As %
Spain	2	<1%
United Kingdom	1	<1%
United States	1	<1%
Germany	1	<1%
Unknown	493	99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Bachelor	97	19%
Student > Master	64	13%
Student > Ph. D. Student	45	9%
Other	34	7%
Researcher	32	6%
Other	100	20%
Unknown	126	25%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Sports and Recreations	135	27%
Medicine and Dentistry	101	20%
Nursing and Health Professions	47	9%
Unspecified	21	4%
Engineering	12	2%
Other	41	8%
Unknown	141	28%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 189. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 May 2023.

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#21

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#436

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