Analgesic effect of acupuncture needle penetration: A double-blind crossover study

Open Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 24-31

  Takakura, Nobuari ^a,b,c   Yajima, Hiroyoshi ^a,b  

^a TOKYO ARIAKE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

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