Issues in planning a placebo-controlled trial of manual methods: Results of a pilot study

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-32

  Hawk, Cheryl ^a   Long, Cynthia R ^a   Reiter, Robert ^b   Davis, Charles S ^c   Cambron, Jerrilyn A ^d   Evans, Roni ^e  

^a PALMER CENTER FOR CHIROPRACTIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b PROMEDICA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036176887     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107555302753507159     Document Type: Article

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