Exercise and manual auricular acupuncture: A pilot assessor-blind randomised controlled trial. (The acupuncture and personalised exercise programme (APEP) Trial)

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  McDonough, S M ^a   Liddle, S D ^a   Hunter, R ^a   Walsh, D M ^a   Glasgow, P ^b   Gormley, G ^c   Hurley, D ^d   Delitto, A ^e   Park, J ^f   Bradbury, I ^g   Baxter, G D ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Sports Institute Northern Ireland   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Frontier Science Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BOTHERSOMENESS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PILOT STUDY; POWER ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; FEAR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; KINESIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE, EAR; ANALGESICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEAR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF EFFICACY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42249087322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-31     Document Type: Article

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