Interferential current therapy: Often used but misunderstood

Athletic Therapy Today

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 29-31

  Draper, David O ^a   Knight, Kenneth L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKACHE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INTERFERENTIAL CURRENT THERAPY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 33746367464     PISSN: 10787895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/att.11.4.29     Document Type: Short Survey

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