Acupuncture for chronic headaches - An epidemiological study

Headache

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 632-641

  Melchart, Dieter ^a,b   Weidenhammer, Wolfgang ^a   Streng, Andrea ^a   Hoppe, Andrea ^a   Pfaffenrath, Volker ^c   Linde, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Complementary medicine; Migraine; Observational; Tension type headache

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE; CLUSTER HEADACHE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; EPISODIC TENSION HEADACHE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; MIGRAINE WITHOUT AURA; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN DISABILITY INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR HEADACHE;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645454307     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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