Treatment of a knee contracture using a knee orthosis incorporating stress-relaxation techniques

Physical Therapy

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 182-186

  Jansen, Candy M ^b   Windau, Jeffrey E ^b   Bonutti, Peter M ^b   Brillhart, Mark V ^b  

^a RR I   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arthroplasty; Contracture; Knee; Lower extremity, knee; Ortholics splints casts, lower extremity

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CONTRACTURE; KNEE DISEASE; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; ORTHOSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

EID: 0030024519     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/76.2.182     Document Type: Article

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