Therapeutic physical agents

DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice: Fifth Edition

Volumn 2-2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1691-1712

  Basford, Jeffrey R ^a   Baxter, G David ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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