The return to sports activity after conservative or surgical treatment in athletes with lumbar disc herniation

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1030-1035

  Iwamoto, Jun ^a   Sato, Yoshihiro ^b   Takeda, Tsuyoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Hideo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Mitate Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Athletes; Conservative treatment; Disc herniation; Microdiscectomy; Percutaneous discectomy

Indexed keywords

CONVALESCENCE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SPORT; SPORT INJURY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; DISKECTOMY; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPORTS;

EID: 77957132304     PISSN: 08949115     EISSN: 15377385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHM.0b013e3181f71044     Document Type: Review

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