Backpack treatment for camptocormia

Movement Disorders

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 247-248

  Gerton, Brooke K ^a   Theeler, Brett ^b   Samii, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARM; BACKACHE; BACKPACK TREATMENT; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAMPTOCORMIA; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DYSKINESIA; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LETTER; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SHOULDER PAIN; SPINE DEGENERATION; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE MALFORMATION; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREMOR; WALKING; WALKING AID; WEIGHT;

AGED; BACK PAIN; DYSTONIA; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURAL BALANCE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77649137168     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22909     Document Type: Letter

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