Ten years evidence-based high-tech acupuncture - A short review of centrally measured effects

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-314

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Complementary medicine; Integrative medicine; Laserneedle acupuncture; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ACUPUNCTURE; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHINESE MEDICINE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OXIMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

EID: 68849108574     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem169     Document Type: Review

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