Acupuncture treatment for low back pain and lower limb symptoms - The relation between acupuncture or electroacupuncture stimulation and sciatic nerve blood flow

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-143

  Inoue, Motohiro ^a   Kitakoji, Hiroshi ^a   Yano, Tadashi ^a   Ishizaki, Naoto ^a   Itoi, Megumi ^a   Katsumi, Yasukazu ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disc herniation; Pudendal nerve; Sciatic nerve; Spinal canal stenosis; Spinal nerve root

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAUDA EQUINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DYSESTHESIA; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; NERVE ROOT; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WALKING;

EID: 44649162564     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem050     Document Type: Article

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