Cutaneous two-point discrimination thresholds and palpatory sensibility in chiropractic students and field chiropractors

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 466-471

  Foster, Ian E ^a   Bagust, Jeffery ^a  

^a ANGLO EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NYLON;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEASUREMENT; PALPATION; PAPER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRESSURE; RECORDING; SENSIBILITY; SKIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT; THICKNESS; TRAINING;

ADULT; CHIROPRACTIC; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PALPATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH;

EID: 4644318584     PISSN: 01614754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

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