Conservative treatment of lumbar spondylolysis in young soccer players

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2111-2114

  Álvarez Díaz, Pedro ^a,b,c   Alentorn Geli, Eduard ^a,b,c   Steinbacher, Gilbert ^a   Rius, Marta ^a   Pellisé, Ferran ^b   Cugat, Ramón ^a,b,c  

^a Mutualitat Catalana de Futbolistes Delegació Catalunya ^*  (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL QUIRÓN   (Spain)

^c Garcia Cugat Foundation   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservative treatment; Lumbar spondylolysis; Rehabilitation; Soccer players

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CONVALESCENCE; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPONDYLOLYSIS; SPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCCER; SPONDYLOLYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81155134746     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-011-1447-7     Document Type: Review

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