Acute low back pain with radiculopathy: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 553-560

  Konstantinovic, Ljubica M ^a   Kanjuh, Zeljko M ^a   Milovanovic, Andjela N ^b   Cutovic, Milisav R ^a   Djurovic, Aleksandar G ^c   Savic, Viktorija G ^d   Dragin, Aleksandra S ^a   Milovanovic, Nesa D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^d Institute for Rheumatology   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CLINICAL EFFECTS; CONTACT METHODS; CONTROLLED TRIAL; HEALTH SURVEYS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LOW-BACK PAIN; NIMESULIDE; POWER DENSITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADICULOPATHY; SCHOBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT TIME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

HEALTH; SURVEYS;

LASER SURGERY;

NIMESULIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SULFONAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADICULOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADICULOPATHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SULFONAMIDES;

EID: 77955641873     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2576     Document Type: Article

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