What is the value of physical therapies for back pain?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 623-638

  Moffett, Jennifer Klaber ^a   Mannion, Anne F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Back pain; Clinical practice; Evidence; Physical therapy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CRYOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIATHERMY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIFESTYLE; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MOBILIZATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACTION THERAPY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES;

EID: 20344381171     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2005.03.005     Document Type: Review

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