Internal impingement in the tennis player: Rehabilitation guidelines

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 165-171

  Cools, A M ^a   Declercq, G ^b   Cagnie, B ^a   Cambier, D ^a   Witvrouw, E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED INSTABILITY OVERUSE SYNDROME; ATHLETE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSKINESIA; EXERCISE; GLENOHUMERAL INTERNAL ROTATION DEFICIT; HUMAN; INTERNAL IMPINGEMENT; LIMB DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOBILIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SCAPULAR DYSKINESIS; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; TENNIS; TRAINING; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER JOINT; TENNIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41349123316     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2007.036830     Document Type: Review

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