Adhesive Capsulitis: Optimal Treatment of ‘Frozen Shoulder’

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 23-29

  Sandor, Rick ^a  

^a Camino Medical Group in Sunnyvale   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

ANALGESIA; ARTHRITIS; BONE TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXERCISE; FROZEN SHOULDER; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; JOINT CAPSULE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER PAIN; SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY;

EID: 0033803022     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: 23263660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2000.09.1200     Document Type: Review

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