Pain medications in the locker room: To dispense or not

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 366-370

  Smith, Bradley J ^a   Collina, Steven J ^a  

^a Orthopaedic Specialists   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CELECOXIB; CORTICOSTEROID; DICLOFENAC; INDOMETACIN; KETOPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LIDOCAINE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PIROXICAM; PLACEBO; STEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACETABULUM FRACTURE; ACUTE DISEASE; ANKLE SPRAIN; ATHLETE; BONE INJURY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SPORTS MEDICINE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; DOPING; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG UTILIZATION; ETHICS; PAIN; SPORT INJURY;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANESTHETICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ATHLETIC INJURIES; DOPING IN SPORTS; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG UTILIZATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PAIN;

EID: 36749024509     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11932-007-0053-4     Document Type: Review

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