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Lower limb injuries are most common in athletes and involve fractures and ligament or tendon injuries. Running, jumping and throwing produce tremendous ground reactive forces that can create various musculoskeletal injuries and dysfunction.

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  1. Dipartimento di scienze biomediche per la salute, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Pietro Randelli & Paolo Cabitza

  2. Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Policlinico San Donato, San Donato, Italy

    Pietro Randelli, Alessandra Menon, Vincenza Ragone, Riccardo Compagnoni, Pietro Spennacchio & Paolo Cabitza

  3. Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, King’s College Hospital, London Bridge Hospital, London, UK

    Daniel Baron

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    Davide Edoardo Bonasia & Roberto Rossi

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    Michael R. Carmont

  6. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, 41110 Mezourlo area, Larissa, Greece

    Michael Hantes

  7. Orthopedic Department, Caen University Hospital Comete, Caen University Hospital, Caen, France

    Christophe Hulet, Vincent Pineau & Goulven Rochcongar

  8. Department of Orthopaedics, Hatanpää Hospital, 437, Tampere, FIN-33101, Finland

    Timo Järvelä

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    Mustafa Karahan

  10. Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gino Kerkhoffs

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    Gustaaf Reurink

  12. Institute for Anatomy and Cellbiology, Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg & HKF: Center for Hip-Knee-Foot Surgery, ATOS Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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Randelli, P. et al. (2014). Lower Limb. In: Zaffagnini, S., Becker, R., Kerkhoffs, G., Espregueira Mendes, J., van Dijk, C. (eds) ESSKA Instructional Course Lecture Book. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53983-1_18

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