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elite schoolboy footballers
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May support skeletal maturity assessment with load monitoring in youth footballers; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Skeletal age and training/playing hours are better predictors of injury in schoolboy footballers than chronological age.
Johnson et al. (2009) studied this question.
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