Acute hospitalization and discharge outcome of neurologically intact trauma patients sustaining thoracolumbar vertebral fractures managed conservatively with thoracolumbosacral orthoses and physical therapy

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-224

  Melchiorre, Philip J ^a,b,c  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; ORTHOSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 0033056050     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(99)90125-9     Document Type: Article

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