Noninsertional Achilles tendinopathy: Pathology and management

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 288-292

  McShane, John M ^a   Ostick, Brian ^b   McCabe, Frank ^b  

^a McShane Sports Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLIDOCANOL;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; TENOTOMY;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NITROGLYCERIN; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPORTS MEDICINE; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 34948837963     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0064-1     Document Type: Review

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