The efficacy of sea mud compresses from missolonghi lagoon as a treatment for osteoarthritis symptoms on neck, shoulder, arm, lower back, hip and knee joints

Epitheorese Klinikes Farmakologias kai Farmakokinetikes

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-168

  Pnevmatikatos, Socrates ^b   Tzougrana, Chrysoula ^a   Papadas, Thomas ^b   Kintziou, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Joints; Lagoon; Missolonghi; Mud; Osteoarthritis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; MUD THERAPY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; SUN EXPOSURE;

EID: 79960785942     PISSN: 10116575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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