Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 234-238 , March 2007

Twenty-Year-Old Pathogenic “Active” Postsurgical Scar: A Case Study of a Patient With Persistent Right Lower Quadrant Pain

  • Alena Kobesova, MD

      Affiliations

    • Second Medical Faculty, Rehabilitation Clinic, University Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Corresponding Author InformationSubmit requests for reprints to: Alena Kobesova, MD, Department of Rehabilitation, University Hospital Motol, V Uvalu 84, 15006 Prague 5, Motol, Czech Republic.
    • ,
  • Craig E. Morris, DC

      Affiliations

    • Professor of Clinical Sciences, Cleveland Chiropractic College, Los Angeles, Calif
    • Director, FIRST Health Clinic, Torrance, Calif
    • ,
  • Karel Lewit, MD, DSc

      Affiliations

    • Second Medical Faculty, Rehabilitation Clinic, University Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • Marcela Safarova, PT

      Affiliations

    • Second Medical Faculty, Rehabilitation Clinic, University Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Received 19 February 2006 ,Revised 14 May 2006 ,Accepted 1 June 2006.

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PII: S0161-4754(07)00050-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2007.01.005

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 234-238 , March 2007

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