Tutorial 36: Myofascial pain syndrome and fibromyalgia

Pain Digest

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 264-272

  Abrams, Bernard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CYCLOBENZAPRINE;

AGITATION; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWSINESS; FIBROMYALGIA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; HYPNOSIS; LASER SURGERY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SLEEP DISORDER; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0031669219     PISSN: 09389016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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