Effects of low-level laser and plyometric exercises in the treatment of lateral epicondylitis

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 205-213

  Stergioulas, Apostolos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRIP STRENGTH; TENDINOPATHY; TENNIS ELBOW;

LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; PATIENT TREATMENT;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; PALPATION; PLYOMETRICS; RANGE OF MOTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TENDINITIS; TENNIS ELBOW; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 34447502030     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2007.2041     Document Type: Article

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