Use of complementary therapies in patients with Parkinson's disease in Singapore

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 86-89

  Tan, Louis C S ^a   Lau, Puay Ngoh ^a   Jamora, Roland Dominic G ^a   Chan, Edwin S Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Research Unit   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Alternative medicine; Complementary therapies; Parkinson's disease; Traditional medicine; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AROMATHERAPY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REFLEXOLOGY; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33244478752     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20662     Document Type: Article

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