A transcontinental pilot study for acupuncture lifting-thrusting and twisting-rotating manipulations

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Huang, Tao ^a   Zhang, Weibo ^a   Jia, Shuyong ^a   Tian, Yuying ^a   Wang, Guangjun ^a   Yang, Lijian ^b   Gaischek, Ingrid ^c   Wang, Lu ^c   Litscher, Gerhard ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (China)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN SENSATION;

EID: 84871459969     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/157989     Document Type: Article

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