Twenty-Year-Old Pathogenic "Active" Postsurgical Scar: A Case Study of a Patient With Persistent Right Lower Quadrant Pain

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 234-238

  Kobesova, Alena ^a   Morris, Craig E ^b,c   Lewit, Karel ^a   Safarova, Marcela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^b Cleveland Chiropractic College   (United States)

^c FIRST Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Musculoskeletal Manipulations; Myofascial Pain Syndromes

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; GUAIFENESIN; INDOMETACIN; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; SALICYLATE SODIUM; TRAMADOL; TRIMECAINE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; SCAR; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; CICATRIX; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 34047105628     PISSN: 01614754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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