Shock Wave Therapy: What Really Matters

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1868-1869

  Maier, Markus ^a   Schmitz, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL LAMENESS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVICE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PLANTAR FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 47249134731     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2008.03.016     Document Type: Letter

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