Goal-directed acupuncture in sports - Placebo or doping?

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Usichenko, Taras I ^a   Gizhko, Vasyl ^a   Wendt, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CASE REPORT; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FATIGUE; HUMAN; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RUNNING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPORT; SWIMMING; THERMOGRAPHY; TRAINING;

EID: 79955108107     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nep210     Document Type: Article

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