Painful Achilles tendon and its treatment

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 69-71

  Kannus, Pekka ^a,b   Järvinen, Teppo L N ^a   Järvinen, Tero A H ^a   Järvinen, Markku ^a,b   Parkkari, Jari ^b   Khan, Karim ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANGIOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEGENERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INJECTION; IONTOPHORESIS; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOM; TENDINITIS; TENDON DISEASE; TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACHILLES TENDON; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PAIN; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; TENDINOPATHY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 2342526482     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2004.00291.x     Document Type: Editorial

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