Search for dissertations about: "lateral epicondylalgia"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words lateral epicondylalgia.

  2. 1. Lateral epicondylalgia A new structured treatment program with an inter-disciplinary approach

    Author : Pia Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; elbow; function; interdisciplinary; lateral epicondylalgia; pain; PRTEE-S; recurrence period; sick-leave; training program;

    Abstract : Conclusion: Interdisciplinary cooperation in the treatment of patients with acute lateral epicondylalgia benefits the patients by shortening the rehabilitation period and provides health care professionals the opportunity for an improved learning and exchanging experiences. There was a strong will to cooperate and the risks of side effects with corticosteroid injections and NSAID are well-known although they are the most common treatments. READ MORE

  4. 2. Treatment of Epicondylalgia and Nerve Entrapments around the Elbow

    Author : Birgitta Svernlöv; Lars Adolfsson; Göran Nylander; Gunnar Kratz; Carl Ekholm; Linköpings universitet; []
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    Abstract : Disorders causing pain in the elbow region is a common problem and is one of the most frequent forms of work-related health problems. These conditions are thus of major importance from the public health point of view, as well as from that of the suffering individual. READ MORE

  5. 3. Pain influences somatosensory perception : an experimental and clinical study

    Author : Ann-Sofie Leffler; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Muscle pain; referred pain; hypoaesthesia; allodynia; musculoskeletal; pain; sensory abnormality; quantitative sensory testing; trapezius myalgia; somatosensory perception; perception thresholds; diffuse noxious inhibitory controls DNIC ; central hyperexcitability; tourniquet test; cold-pressor test.;

    Abstract : The underlying mechanisms maintaining long-term pain localised to musculoskeletal structures and joints are not infrequently unknown. In routine clinical work with such patients insufficient attention has been paid to phenomena indicating altered excitability of the central nervous system (CNS). READ MORE