Deqi sensations without cutaneous sensory input: Results of an RCT

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Salih, Norbert ^a   Bäumler, Petra I ^a   Simang, Michael ^a   Irnich, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; SENSATION; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; NEEDLES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLACEBOS; SENSATION; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650584340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-81     Document Type: Article

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