Comparison of effects of exercise programme, pulsed ultrasound and transverse friction in the treatment of chronic patellar tendinopathy

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 347-352

  Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Stasinopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Centre   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRICTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATELLA TENDON; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENDON DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATELLA; TENDONS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 2542626622     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215504cr757oa     Document Type: Article

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