The painful shoulder

Medicine Today

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 73-79

  Shanahan, E Michael ^a   Buchbinder, Rachelle ^b,c  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CABRINI HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; ELECTROLYTE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ABDUCTION; ACROMIOCLAVICULAR JOINT; ACROMIOCLAVICULAR JOINT DISORDER; AGING; ARTHROPATHY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BONE METASTASIS; BURSITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXERCISE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GLENOHUMERAL JOINT DISORDER; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; JOINT LIMITATION; MORNING STIFFNESS; NERVE BLOCK; OSTEOPHYTE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RECURRENT SHOULDER DISLOCATION; REFERRED PAIN; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SHOULDER PAIN; TENDINITIS; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 77957191523     PISSN: 1443430X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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