Digitally tender points: their significance in physiotherapy

Physical Therapy Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 188-196

  Lewis, Cynan ^a   Sterling, Michele ^a   Souvlis, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

DIGITALLY TENDER POINTS; FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROME; STRAIN COUNTERSTRAIN

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955664666     PISSN: 10833196     EISSN: 1743288X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174328808X252109     Document Type: Article

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