Benefits of massage therapy and use of a doula during labor and childbirth

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-74

  Keenan, Phyllis ^a  

^a Potomac Massage Training Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABOR; MASSAGE; MIDWIFE; NURSE; PERINEUM INJURY; TOUCH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDWIFERY; NURSE MIDWIVES; PREGNANCY; SPOUSES;

EID: 0033860419     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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