Continuous low-level heat therapy: What works, what doesn't

Athletic Therapy Today

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 46-48

  Draper, David O ^a   Trowbridge, Cynthia ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; CRYOTHERAPY; DIATHERMY; HEALING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE SPASM; PAIN; SHORT SURVEY; TRAINING;

EID: 0141816900     PISSN: 10787895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/att.8.5.46     Document Type: Short Survey

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