Treatment options for patellar tendinopathy: Critical review

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 255-270

  Gaida, James E ^a   Cook, Jill ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOSE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; POLIDOCANOL; STEROID;

ANALGESIA; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ATHLETE; ATROPHY; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; LEG EXERCISE; MASSAGE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATELLAR TENDINITIS; PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW; STEROID INDUCED ATROPHY; TENDINITIS; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHROSCOPY; ATHLETIC INJURIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; TENDINOPATHY; TENOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 82855168724     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e31822d4016     Document Type: Review

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