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Jennifer Steinhoff, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician specializing in sports medicine. She practices sports medicine and non-operative orthopedics in Wisconsin. Compression socks ...

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Correspondence to Isla J Shill, Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; isla.shill{at}ucalgary.ca Objective To examine differences in ...

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