A Home Exercise Programme Is No More Beneficial than Advice and Education for People with Neurogenic Claudication: Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Comer, Christine ^a,b   Redmond, Anthony C ^b,c   Bird, Howard A ^b   Hensor, Elizabeth M A ^b,c   Conaghan, Philip G ^b,c  

^a Leeds Community Healthcare   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLAUDICATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOME PHYSIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROGENIC CLAUDICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SWISS SPINAL STENOSIS SCALE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WELLBEING;

AGED; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884767113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072878     Document Type: Article

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