The effect of continuous ultrasound on chronic low back pain: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ebadi, Safoora ^a   Ansari, Noureddin Nakhostin ^a   Henschke, Nicholas ^b,c   Naghdi, Soofia ^a   Van Tulder, Maurits W ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAINING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952577509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-59     Document Type: Article

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