Interventions that increase or decrease the likelihood of a meaningful improvement in physical health in patients with sciatica

Physical Therapy

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1139-1150

  Jewell, Dianne V ^a   Riddle, Daniel L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Exercise; Health status; Joints; Outcome assessment; Sciatica

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXERCISE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; JOINT MOBILITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL COMPONENT SCALE 12; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 27644474968     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/85.11.1139     Document Type: Article

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