Use of noninvasive interactive neurostimulation to improve short-term recovery in patients with surgically repaired bimalleolar ankle fractures: A prospective, randomized clinical trial

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 432-437

  Gorodetskyi, Igor G ^a   Gorodnichenko, Anatolyi I ^a   Tursin, Petr S ^a   Reshetnyak, Vitalyi K ^b   Uskov, Oleg N ^b  

^a Research Medical Centre   (Russian Federation)

^b Scientific Educational Medical Centre   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Fracture fixation; Function; Injury; Pain; Range of motion

Indexed keywords

KETOROLAC;

ADULT; ANKLE EDEMA; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BIMALLEOLAR ANKLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONINVASIVE INTERACTIVE NEUROSTIMULATION; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE INJURIES; DRUG UTILIZATION; EDEMA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 77955981399     PISSN: 10672516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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