Rehabilitation after falls and fractures

Journal of Musculoskeletal Neuronal Interactions

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 244-250

  Dionyssiotis, Yannis ^a,b   Dontas, I A ^a   Economopoulos, D ^a   Lyritis, G P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Rhodes   (Greece)

Author keywords

Falls; Fractures; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; MINERAL; VITAMIN;

ARTICLE; BONE FRAGILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLES FRACTURE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FALLING; FOOD COMPOSITION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEIN DIET; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANGE OF MOTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SELF CARE; SKILL; SPINE STABILIZATION; TAI CHI; TREATMENT DURATION; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGING; COLLES' FRACTURE; FRACTURES, BONE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 56749164316     PISSN: 11087161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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