Efficacy of standardised manual therapy and home exercise programme for chronic rotator cuff disease: Randomised placebo controlled trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7763, 2010, Pages c2756-

  Bennell, Kim ^a   Wee, Elin ^a   Coburn, Sally ^a,b   Green, Sally ^c   Harris, Anthony ^d   Staples, Margaret ^c,e   Forbes, Andrew ^c   Buchbinder, Rachelle ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CABRINI HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SHOULDER GIRDLE; SHOULDER PAIN; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

EID: 77954514972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c2756     Document Type: Article

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