Effectiveness of a multidimensional physical therapy program on pain, pressure hypersensitivity, and trigger points in breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled clinical trial

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-121

  Fernández Lao, Carolina ^a   Cantarero Villanueva, Irene ^a   Fernández De Las Peñas, César ^b   Del Moral Ávila, Rosario ^c   Castro Sánchez, Adelaida M ^d   Arroyo Morales, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

breast cancer; exercise; massage; pain; pressure pain sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MASSAGE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL PHYSICAL THERAPY; MUSCLE TRAINING; NECK PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRESSURE HYPERSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOULDER PAIN; STRETCHING EXERCISE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGGER POINT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGGER POINTS;

EID: 84855826816     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e318225dc02     Document Type: Article

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