Chiropractic and self-care for back-related leg pain: Design of a randomized clinical trial

Chiropractic and Manual Therapies

Volumn 19, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schulz, Craig A ^a   Hondras, Maria A ^b   Evans, Roni L ^a   Gudavalli, Maruti R ^b   Long, Cynthia R ^b   Owens, Edward F ^a   Wilder, David G ^c   Bronfort, Gert ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PALMER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACK RELATED LEG PAIN; CHIROPRACTIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HOME EXERCISE PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SPINAL MANIPULATIVE THERAPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81155143501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2045709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-709X-19-8     Document Type: Article

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