Craniosacral therapy is not medicine [2]

Physical Therapy

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1146-1147

  Hartman, Steve E ^a   Norton, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BONE DISEASE; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; SACRUM; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SKULL DEFECT;

EID: 0036845972     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/82.11.1146     Document Type: Letter

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