Therapeutic ultrasound for chronic low-back pain

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ebadi, Safoora ^a   Henschke, Nicholas ^b   Nakhostin Ansari, Noureddin ^a   Fallah, Ehsan ^c   van Tulder, Maurits W ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE INTENSITY; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SHORT FORM 36; SPINE MANIPULATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; CHRONIC PAIN; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ADULT; CHRONIC PAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84907395755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009169.pub2     Document Type: Review

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