Interferential and horizontal therapies in chronic low back pain: A randomized, double blind, clinical study

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 534-539

  Zambito, Antonino ^a   Bianchini, Donatella ^a   Gatti, Davide ^a   Viapiana, Ombretta ^a   Rossini, Maurizio ^a   Adami, Silvano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic low back pain; Double blind placebo controlled trial; Electrical nerve stimulation; Horizontal therapy; Interferential currents; Multiple vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; NIMESULIDE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STRETCHING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 33845475817     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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