Ultrasonography as a tool for diagnosis, guidance of local steroid injection and, together with pressure algometry, monitoring of the treatment of athletes with chronic jumper's knee and Achilles tendinitis: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 94-101

  Fredberg, U ^a,b   Bolvig, L ^a   Pfeiffer Jensen, M ^a   Clemmensen, D ^a   Jakobsen, B W ^a   Stengaard Pedersen, K ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b SILKEBORG REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ALGOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PATELLA TENDON; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SPORT INJURY; TENDINITIS;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ODDS RATIO; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATELLA; PROBABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPORTS; STEROIDS; TENDINOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 1842607166     PISSN: 03009742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03009740310004126     Document Type: Article

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