A 10-day course of SPA therapy is beneficial for people with severe knee osteoarthritis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2063-2071

  Karagülle, Mine ^a   Karagülle, Müfit Zeki ^a   Karagülle, Oǧuz ^a   Dönmez, Arif ^a   Turan, Mustafa ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Balneotherapy; Drugtherapy; Knee osteoarthritis; Lequesne algofunctional index; Pain; Spatherapy

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALNEOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPA TREATMENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WALKING; WELLBEING;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHRALGIA; BALNEOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 36248966531     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-007-0618-x     Document Type: Article

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