Reporting of adverse effects in randomised clinical trials of chiropractic manipulations: A systematic review

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 1353, 2012, Pages

  Ernst, Edzard ^a   Posadzki, Paul ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BACKACHE; CHIROPRACTIC; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPICONDYLITIS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FLUSHING; FOOT; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HALLUX; HALLUX VALGUS; HAMSTRING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; ISCHIALGIA; JOINT MOBILIZATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MIGRAINE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NECK PAIN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 12; SHORT FORM 36; SHOULDER PAIN; SLEEP DISORDER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENSION HEADACHE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84859956716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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