Which treatments are effective for cervical radiculopathy?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-99

  Brown, Sara ^a   Guthmann, Rick ^a   Hitchcock, Kristin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

CERVICOBRACHIAL NEURALGIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; HUMAN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NOTE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IMMOBILIZATION; LAMINECTOMY; RADICULOPATHY; REST; REVIEW;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANALGESICS; ANTICONVULSANTS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LAMINECTOMY; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RADICULOPATHY; REST;

EID: 60549106397     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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