Lack of effect of acupuncture upon signs and symptoms of delayed onset muscle soreness

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 449-456

  Barlas, Panos ^a,b   Robinson, Judith ^a,b   Allen, Jim ^a,b   David Baxter, G ^a,b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Delayed onset muscle soreness

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE ANALGESIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033753618     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.2000.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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