Acupuncture for the treatment of chronic painful peripheral diabetic neuropathy: A long-term study

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 115-121

  Abuaisha, B B ^a   Costanzi, J B ^a   Boulton, A J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Diabetes mellitus; Painful peripheral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031981625     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8227(97)00123-X     Document Type: Article

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