Rhythmical massage therapy in chronic disease: A 4-year prospective cohort study

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 635-642

  Hamre, Harald J ^a   Witt, Claudia M ^b   Glockmann, Anja ^a   Ziegler, Renatus ^c   Willich, Stefan N ^b   Kiene, Helmut ^a  

^a Institut fur angewandte Erkenntnistheorie und medizinische Methodologie e V   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Society for Cancer Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIMIGRAINE AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NECK PAIN; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RHYTHMICAL MASSAGE THERAPY; SHORT FORM 36; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; VERTIGO;

ADULT; BACK PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548439324     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2006.6345     Document Type: Article

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