Battlefield acupuncture: Update

Medical Acupuncture

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-46

  Niemtzow, Richard C ^a,d   Litscher, Gerhard ^b   Burns, Stephen M ^a   Helms, Joseph M ^c  

^a Malcolm Grow Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Helms Medical Institute   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Auriculoacupuncture; Battlefield; Dissimilar metal needles; Near infrared spectroscopy; Pain

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; BURN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 69949110484     PISSN: 19336586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acu.2009.0666     Document Type: Short Survey

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