Effectiveness of physiotherapy, for lateral epicondylitis: A systematic review

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-62

  Smidt, Nynke ^a   Assendelft, Willem J J ^b   Arola, Heikki ^c   Malmivaara, Antti ^d   Green, Sally ^e   Buchbinder, Rachelle ^e   Van Der Windt, Daniëlle A W M ^a   Bouter, Lex M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DUTCH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (Netherlands)

^c City of Tampere   (Finland)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Physical therapy; Randomised controlled trials; Tendinitis; Tennis elbow

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MOBILIZATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346665774     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07853890310004138     Document Type: Review

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