Physical and psychosocial risk factors for lateral epicondylitis: A population based case-referent study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 322-329

  Haahr, J P ^a   Andersen, J H ^a  

^a HERNING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FORCE; HAND; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL STRESS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TENNIS ELBOW; VIBRATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TENNIS ELBOW;

EID: 0038410119     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.5.322     Document Type: Article

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