Management of chronic tendon injuries

American Family Physician

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 486-490

  Childress, Marc A ^a   Beutler, Anthony ^b  

^a Department of endocrinology at Fort Belvoir   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; TENDON INJURY; TENNIS ELBOW; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84875599186     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 15320650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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