Using a healing robot for the scientific study of shirodhara

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 69-78

  Uebaba, Kazuo ^a   Xu, Feng Hao ^b   Tagawa, Miki ^b   Asakura, Rikako ^b   Itou, Tomotake ^b   Tatsuse, Takashi ^b   Taguchi, Yukiko ^b   Ogawa, Hiroko ^b   Shimabayashi, Mizuho ^b   Hisajima, Tatsuya ^b  

^a Intl Res Ctr for Traditional Med   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL; SESAME SEED OIL;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; ROBOTICS; SHIRODHARA; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; TIDAL VOLUME; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; ROBOTICS; SESAME OIL; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20244375240     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2005.1411351     Document Type: Article

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