Role of mesotherapy in musculoskeletal pain: Opinions from the Italian Society of Mesotherapy

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mammucari, Massimo ^a   Gatti, Antonio ^b   Maggiori, Sergio ^a   Sabato, Alessandro F ^b  

^a Italian Society of Mesotherapy   (Italy)

^b TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BUFLOMEDIL; BUPIVACAINE; CALCITONIN; CYTOCHROME; DIAZEPAM; EDETATE DISODIUM; KETOPROFEN; LIDOCAINE; MEPIVACAINE; METHIONINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NALOXONE; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PIROXICAM; PROCAINE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; S ADENOSIL L METHIONINE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOCOLCHICOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ACUTE LUMBOSCIATIC PAIN SYNDROME; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANALGESIA; ARTHRITIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEGENERATIVE ARTHROSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DRUG ABSORPTION; ECCHYMOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INJECTION SITE; INJECTION SITE IRRITATION; INJECTION SITE PAIN; ITALY; KNEE ARTHRITIS; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MESOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; MYOSITIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; PERIARTHRITIS; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SHOULDER HAND SYNDROME; SPINAL PAIN; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TENDINITIS; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862272033     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/436959     Document Type: Review

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