The effects of laser acupuncture on chronic tension headache - A randomised controlled trial

Acupuncture in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-18

  Ebneshahidi, Narges Sadat ^a   Heshmatipour, Mojtaba ^a   Moghaddami, Alireza ^a   Eghtesadi Araghi, Payam ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Chronic tension type headache; Laser acupuncture; Low energy laser; Randomised controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TENSION HEADACHE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 17144409373     PISSN: 09645284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/aim.23.1.13     Document Type: Article

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