Letters to the editor: Acute treatment of inversion ankle sprains: Immobilization versus functional treatment [2]

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 463, Issue , 2007, Pages 250-251

  Kerkhoffs, Gino M M J ^a,b   Struijs, Peter A A A ^a   Van Dijk, C Niek ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANKLE LATERAL LIGAMENT; ANKLE SPRAIN; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LETTER; LIGAMENT INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANKLE INJURY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INJURY; JOINT INSTABILITY; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANKLE INJURIES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35348875660     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BLO.0b013e318156fd1d     Document Type: Letter

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