Immediate effects of the strain/counterstrain technique in local pain evoked by tender points in the upper trapezius muscle

Clinical Chiropractic

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 112-118

  Meseguer, Albert Atienza ^a   Fernández de las Peñas, César ^a,b   Navarro Poza, Jose Luis ^a   Rodríguez Blanco, Cleofás ^a,c   Gandia, Juan José Boscá ^a  

^a Escuela de Osteopatía de Madrid EOM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Strain counterstrain; Tender points; Upper trapezius muscle; Visual analogue scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746705516     PISSN: 14792354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clch.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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