Glucocorticosteroids in football: Use and misuse

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Dvorak, Jiri ^a   Feddermann, N ^b   Grimm, K ^c  

^a SCHULTHESS CLINIC   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c FIFA MEDICAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE DIPROPIONATE; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUTICASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYALURONIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG STRUCTURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOOTBALL; HAMSTRING; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSCLE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PHYSICIAN; RADICULAR PAIN; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SPORT INJURY; TENNIS ELBOW; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; DOPING IN SPORTS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; SOCCER;

EID: 33745823881     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2006.027599     Document Type: Review

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