Validating a nonacupoint sham control for laser treatment of knee osteoarthritis

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-356

  Zhao, Ling ^a,b   Shen, Xueyong ^a,b   Cheng, Ke ^a,b   Deng, Haiping ^a,b   Ding, Guanghong ^b   Tan, Ming ^c   Lao, Lixing ^c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b Shanghai Research Center of Acupuncture and Meridian   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL SETTINGS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL GROUPS; JOINT STIFFNESS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LASER IRRADIATIONS; LASER TREATMENT; ONTARIO; PHYSICAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT;

EXPERIMENTS; LASER SAFETY;

ACUPUNCTURE;

ACUPUNCTURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOXIBUSTION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOXIBUSTION; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 77953949583     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2511     Document Type: Article

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