Evaluation and treatment of posterior neck pain in family practice

Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Douglass, Alan B ^a   Bope, Edward T ^b  

^a MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RIVERSIDE METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BACLOFEN; CYCLOBENZAPRINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; STEROID; TIZANIDINE; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANAMNESIS; BODY POSTURE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; LIVER TOXICITY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOBILIZATION; NECK PAIN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; STANDARD; SYMPTOM; TRACTION THERAPY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WHIPLASH INJURY; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; NECK; PATHOLOGY;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANALGESICS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; NECK; NECK PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TRACTION;

EID: 21644488373     PISSN: 08938652     EISSN: 15448770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.17.suppl_1.s13     Document Type: Review

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