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Osteoarthritis in Handball Players

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Team handball has been an Olympic sport since 1972. In Europe, it is one of the most popular team sports, after soccer and basketball. By July 2009, the International Handball Federation (IHF) listed 166 member federations with approximately 795,000 teams and 19 million players. According to the ranking of “TOTAL SPORTEK” based on 13 different factors, handball is the 22nd most popular sport all over the world but is one of the most popular team sports in Europe. Just within the last 3 years, the number of players doubled in some countries (e.g., Hungary 2015–2017, 31, 000 to 63, 000 registered handball players).

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  1. Sports Surgery Department, National Institute for Sports Medicine, Budapest, Hungary

    András Tállay

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg—Clinique d’Eich, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Saarland University Medical Centre, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Romain Seil

  3. Sports Medicine Research Laboratory, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Romain Seil

  4. Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK

    Lior Laver M.D.

  5. Department of Arthroscopy, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

    Lior Laver M.D.

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  1. Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Lior Laver

  2. Department of Surgery, Aspetar - Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar

    Philippe Landreau

  3. Clinique d’Eich, Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg Clinique d’Eich, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Romain Seil

  4. Aspetar - Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar

    Nebojsa Popovic

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Tállay, A., Seil, R., Laver, L. (2018). Osteoarthritis in Handball Players. In: Laver, L., Landreau, P., Seil, R., Popovic, N. (eds) Handball Sports Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55892-8_28

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