Therapeutic exercise in the treatment of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 384, Issue , 2001, Pages 144-152

  Bodack, Mark P ^a,b   Monteiro, MaryEllen ^a  

^a St Francis Hospital   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; SPINAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0035286995     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200103000-00017     Document Type: Article

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