The immediate and long-term effects of exercise and patient education on physical, functional, and quality-of-life outcome measures after single-level lumbar microdiscectomy: A randomized controlled trial protocol

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Selkowitz, David M ^c   Kulig, Kornelia ^a   Poppert, Elizabeth M ^a   Flanagan, Sean P ^d   Matthews, Ndidiamaka D ^a   Beneck, George J ^a,e   Popovich Jr , John M ^a   Lona, Jose R ^a   Yamada, Kimiko A ^a   Burke, Wendy S ^a   Ervin, Carolyn ^b   Powers, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY SEVERITY; EXERCISE RECOVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DISKECTOMY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749680966     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-7-70     Document Type: Article

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