Manual or exercise therapy for long-standing adductor-related groin pain: A randomised controlled clinical trial

Manual Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-154

  Weir, A ^a,b   Jansen, J A C G ^b   van de Port, I G L ^b   Van de Sande, H B A ^c   Tol, J L ^a   Backx, F J G ^b  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Westfriesgasthuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adductor injury; Adductor tendonitis; Groin injury; Osteitis pubis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOME PHYSIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INGUINAL REGION; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MUSCLE INJURY; MYALGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SPORT INJURY; SPORTING EVENT; STRETCHING EXERCISE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; OSTEITIS; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TENDINOPATHY;

EID: 79551545626     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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