Effects of taping on thumb alignment and force application during PA mobilisations

Manual Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 264-269

  Walsh, Thomas ^a   Delahunt, Eamonn ^a   McCarthy Persson, Ulrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Spinal manipulations Mesh ; Tape; Thumb pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOBILIZATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY PRACTICE; POSTERO ANTERIOR MOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THUMB TAPING; VIDEORECORDING;

ATHLETIC TAPE; BONE MALALIGNMENT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THUMB; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953328498     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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