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Effectiveness of Thermotherapy Using a Heat and Steam Generating Sheet for Cartilage in Knee Osteoarthritis

[Purpose] Superficial heat treatment is one of the most widely used physical therapies for osteoarthritis (OA). We clinically evaluated the effects of local heat treatment and exercise therapy for knee OA, and evaluated the articular cartilage using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) T2 mapping. [Subj...

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Autores principales: Ochiai, Shunsuke, Watanabe, Atsuya, Oda, Hideshi, Ikeda, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Society of Physical Therapy Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24648649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1589/jpts.26.281