New Concepts in the Assessment and Treatment of Regional Musculoskeletal Pain and Sports Injury

PM and R

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 744-754

  Borg Stein, Joanne ^a   Zaremski, Jason L ^b   Hanford, Mary Alice ^c  

^a NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BOTULINUM TOXIN B; CAPSAICIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DESIPRAMINE; DICLOFENAC; DULOXETINE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; GLUCOSE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LAMOTRIGINE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; MILNACIPRAN; MORRHUATE SODIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; PHENOL; PREGABALIN; PROCAINE; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SILDENAFIL; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE; ZONISAMIDE;

ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE NECROSIS; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENTHESOPATHY; EPICONDYLITIS; EXERCISE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HEALING; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INJECTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ARTHROGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYALGIA; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLOTHERAPY; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPASTICITY; SPORT INJURY; SPRAIN; TENDINITIS; TENDON INJURY; TENDON RUPTURE; TENOSYNOVITIS; TENSION HEADACHE; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; PAIN; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 68949145399     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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