The 2004 olympic games: Physiotherapy services in the olympic village polyclinic

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 603-609

  Athanasopoulos, Spyridon ^b   Kapreli, Eleni ^a   Tsakoniti, Aikaterini ^b   Karatsolis, Konstantinos ^b   Diamantopoulos, Konstanrinos ^c   Kalampakas, Konstantinos ^c   Pyrros, Demetrios G ^d   Parisis, Costas ^e   Strimpakos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Physiopraxis Clinic   (Greece)

^d National Centre of Emergency Care   (Greece)

^e General Hospital of Ag Paulos   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SPORT INJURY; TENDINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATHLETIC INJURIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SPORTS;

EID: 34548800686     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2007.035204     Document Type: Article

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