The conservative management of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis

Physical Therapy Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 153-163

  Wright, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

BOSTON BRACE; ELECTRO SPINAL ORTHOSIS; EXERCISE; LATERAL ELECTRICAL SPINAL STIMULATION; MILWAUKEE BRACE; SCOLIOSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007586248     PISSN: 10833196     EISSN: 1743288X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/ptr.1997.2.3.153     Document Type: Article

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