The painful nonruptured tendon: Clinical aspects

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 711-725

  Khan, Karim ^a   Cook, Jill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ATHLETE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELBOW DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PAIN; PATELLA TENDON; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SPORT INJURY; TENDINITIS; TENDON INJURY; TENDON LESION; TENDON RUPTURE; TENOSYNOVITIS;

EID: 0141842704     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5919(03)00035-8     Document Type: Review

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