Cervicogenic headache: Manual and manipulative therapies

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 369-375

  Grimshaw, David N ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical Spine; Cervicogenic Headache; Spinal Manipulation; Spinal Manipulative Therapy; Whiplash Injury

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE; HEADACHE AND FACIAL PAIN; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NECK MUSCLE; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MANIPULATION, ORTHOPEDIC; MOVEMENT; NECK MUSCLES;

EID: 0035430173     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-001-0027-9     Document Type: Article

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