Cryotherapy Decreases Intraarticular Temperature after ACL Reconstruction

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 421, Issue , 2004, Pages 268-272

  Glenn Jr , Ronald Edward ^a   Spindler, Kurt Paul ^a   Warren, Todd Alan ^a   McCarty, Eric Cleveland ^a   Secic, Michelle ^b  

^a Vanderbilt Sports Medicine Center   (United States)

^b Secic Statistical Consulting Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BANDAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYOTHERAPY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEMARTHROSIS; HUMAN; KNEE INJURY; KNEE LIGAMENT; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; KNEE MENISCUS RUPTURE; LIGAMENT INJURY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2342531707     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000126302.41711.eb     Document Type: Article

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