Biomedical teleacupuncture between China and Austria using heart rate variability, Part 1: Poststroke patients

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Litscher, Gerhard ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Valentini, Jan ^a,b   Sugimoto, Kazuo ^b   Cheng, Weiping ^b   Cheng, Guangyu ^b   Geng, Haoming ^b   Gaischek, Ingrid ^a   Kuang, Haixue ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOMEDICINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE PATIENT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TELEACUPUNCTURE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 80052674091     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/782489     Document Type: Article

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