Low-intensity electromagnetic millimeter waves for pain therapy

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-207

  Usichenko, Taras I ^a   Edinger, Hardy ^a   Gizhko, Vasyl V ^a   Lehmann, Christian ^a   Wendt, Michael ^a   Feyerherd, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Millimeter waves; Pain therapy; Review

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ANALGESIA; ARTHRITIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOALGESIA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; MILLIMETER WAVE THERAPY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 33745683919     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nel012     Document Type: Review

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