The Foot
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 18-26 , March 2010

Conservative treatment of tibialis posterior tendon dysfunction—A review

  • Beverly Bowring

      Affiliations

    • Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
    • Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Nachiappan Chockalingam

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Clinical Biomechanics, Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, Stoke on Trent ST4 2DF, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 1782 295853; fax: +44 1782 294321.

Received 22 June 2009 ,Accepted 27 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.foot.2009.11.001

The Foot
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 18-26 , March 2010

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