Electrotherapy modalities for rotator cuff disease

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Page, Matthew J ^a   Green, Sally ^a   Mrocki, Marshall A ^a   Surace, Stephen J ^a   Deitch, Jessica ^a   Mcbain, Brodwen ^b   Lyttle, Nicolette ^a   Buchbinder, Rachelle ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Melbourne Hand Therapy   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO;

ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SYNTHESIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ELECTROTHERAPY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MICROCURRENT ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; MICROWAVE DIATHERMY; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENDINITIS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; ADULT; DIATHERMY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER PAIN; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ADULT; DIATHERMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER PAIN; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84978946505     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012225     Document Type: Review

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