Is ice right? Does cryotherapy improve outcome for acute soft tissue injury?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 65-68

  Collins, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANKLE SPRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE MODEL; EDEMA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GEL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWELLING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CRYOTHERAPY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; ICE; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38849109312     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.051664     Document Type: Review

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