Contrast Baths: What Do We Know about Their Use?

Journal of Hand Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 343-346

  Stanton, Donna Breger ^a   Bear Lehman, Jane ^b   Graziano, Mark ^c   Ryan, Christine ^d  

^a SAMUEL MERRITT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c JACOBI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTRAST BATH; CRYOTHERAPY; EDEMA; HAND DISEASE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; JOINT STIFFNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0242610918     PISSN: 08941130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S0894-1130(03)00161-3     Document Type: Article

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