Physical therapy: A critique

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-127

  Feine, Jocelyne S ^a   Widmer, Charles G ^b   Lund, James P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FACE PAIN; HEAT; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LASER; LOW BACK PAIN; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FACIAL PAIN; HEAT; HUMANS; LASERS; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATION, ORTHOPEDIC; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0030641769     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(97)90102-5     Document Type: Article

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