Epidemiology of ankle sprains and anterior cruciate ligament injuries in youth basketball athletes in Niigata, Japan: A regional survey on injury management and healthcare professional involvement

• Takanori Kikumoto ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kikumoto@nuhw.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0839-2224

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• Jun Mizutani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Kon Orthopedic Clinic, Niigata, Japan

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• Atsushi Tsuchida,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Okada Orthopedic Clinic, Niigata, Japan

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• Tomoya Takabayashi,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan

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• Masayoshi Kubo,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan

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• Hirokazu Okada,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Okada Orthopedic Clinic, Niigata, Japan

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• Yoshiaki Kon

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, Kon Orthopedic Clinic, Niigata, Japan

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