Complementary and alternative medicine treatments among stroke patients in India

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 384-394

  Pandian, Jeyaraj ^a   Toor, Gagan ^a   Arora, Rajni ^a   Kaur, Paramdeep ^a   Dheeraj, K V ^a   Bhullar, Ranjeet ^a   Sylaja, Padmawati ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

alternative medicine; complementary medicine

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AYURVEDA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHASIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; LIMB WEAKNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; REIKI; RELIGION; SEIZURE; SLURRED SPEECH; SMOKING; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; STROKE UNIT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSTEADINESS; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; WITCHCRAFT;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDICINE, AYURVEDIC; MIDDLE AGED; OPIUM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STROKE; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 84866528560     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: 19455119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/tsr1905-384     Document Type: Article

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