Stretch for the treatment and prevention of contractures (Q24235508)

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Lisa A Harvey

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Robert D Herbert

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Natasha A Lannin

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Karl Schurr

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8 September 2010

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Consolidated OpenCitations Corpus – April 2017

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Consolidated OpenCitations Corpus – April 2017

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20824861

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