Does Nonsurgical Treatment Improve Longitudinal Outcomes of Lateral Epicondylitis Over No Treatment? A Meta-analysis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1093-1107

  Sayegh, Eli T ^a   Strauch, Robert J ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN POLYSULFATE; HYALURONIC ACID; NAPROXEN; PLACEBO; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSULTATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; LONG TERM CARE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENNIS ELBOW; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; HAND STRENGTH; RADIATION; THERAPEUTIC USE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; HAND STRENGTH; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PLATELET-RICH PLASMA; TENNIS ELBOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922215390     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-014-4022-y     Document Type: Review

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