Manual therapy and exercises for shoulder impingement revisited

Physical Therapy Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 263-284

  Braun, Cordula ^a,b   Bularczyk, Mirja ^b   Heintsch, Jonas ^b   Hanchard, Nigel C A ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Hochschule 21   (Germany)

Author keywords

Manual therapy; Randomized controlled trials; Shoulder impingement syndrome; Systematic review; Therapeutic exercise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929085265     PISSN: 10833196     EISSN: 1743288X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/108331913X13709388114510     Document Type: Article

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