Increased pain threshold following electroacupuncture: Analgesia is induced mainly in meridian acupuncture points

Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 109-117

  Farber, Paulo L ^a,b,c   Tachibana, Adriano ^a   Campiglia, Helena M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Brazilian Med Assoc Acupuncture D   (Brazil)

^c Sci Acupuncture Research Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Acupuncture points; Electroacupuncture; Meridians; Pain; Pain Threshold

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MERIDIAN ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; PAIN THRESHOLD;

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD;

EID: 0030860324     PISSN: 03601293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/036012997816356725     Document Type: Article

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