Clinical tip: Achilles tendon repair with accelerated rehabilitation program

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 412-415

  Shilders, Ernest ^a,b   Bismil, Quamar ^a,d   Metcalf, Robert ^a,b   Marynissen, Hans ^a,c  

^a Bradford Royal Infirmary ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b BRADFORD ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c BURNLEY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Dewsbury and District Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT POSITIONING; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 18244395540     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107110070502600514     Document Type: Article

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