Practical management: Hamstring muscle injuries

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 48-52

  Drezner, Jonathan A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b 6 Mutch Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CRYOTHERAPY; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LEG EXERCISE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RISK FACTOR; WOUND HEALING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ATHLETIC INJURIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RISK FACTORS; THIGH;

EID: 0037247869     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042752-200301000-00009     Document Type: Article

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