Interferential therapy: Lack of effect upon experimentally induced delayed onset muscle soreness

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 339-347

  Minder, P M ^a   Noble, J G ^b   Alves Guerreiro, J ^a   Hill, I D ^a   Lowe, A S ^a   Walsh, D M ^a   Baxter, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eccentric exercise; Electrotherapy; Experimental pain; Mechanical pain threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM EXERCISE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE TEST; EXHAUSTION; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; INTERFERENTIAL THERAPY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MYALGIA; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TORQUE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELBOW JOINT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTURE; TORQUE;

EID: 0036734443     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1475-097X.2002.00441.x     Document Type: Article

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