Sports and exercise medicine-specialists or snake oil salesmen?

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-84

  Franklyn Miller, A ^a,b   Etherington, J ^a   McCrory, P ^b  

^a Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTOVEGIN; ANTIOXIDANT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HEME; MINERAL; PLANT EXTRACT; TRAUMEEL S;

CONVALESCENCE; DRUG COMBINATION; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT INJURY; SPORTS MEDICINE; STANDARD;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HEME; HUMANS; MINERALS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 79551497090     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2009.068999     Document Type: Editorial

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