Mechanical means to improve bone strength: Ultrasound and vibration

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-256

  Kasturi, Gopi ^a   Adler, Robert A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture healing; Low intensity pulsed ultrasound; Osteoporosis fracture; Whole body vibration

Indexed keywords

ADIPOGENESIS; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE STRENGTH; CARTILAGE CELL; CHONDROGENESIS; DISABILITY; ERYTHEMA; FIBROBLAST; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; LOW INTENSITY PULSED ULTRASOUND; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE SPASM; OSTEOBLAST; RISK ASSESSMENT; STIMULATION; SWELLING; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE REGENERATION; CHILD; DISABLED CHILDREN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VIBRATION;

EID: 79957515541     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-011-0177-7     Document Type: Article

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