Effectiveness of Home-Based Cupping Massage Compared to Progressive Muscle Relaxation in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain-A Randomized Controlled Trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Lauche, Romy ^a   Materdey, Svitlana ^a   Cramer, Holger ^a   Haller, Heidemarie ^a   Stange, Rainer ^b   Dobos, Gustav ^a   Rampp, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Immanuel Hospital Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPPING MASSAGE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MASSAGE; MYALGIA; NECK PAIN; NOCICEPTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOULDER PAIN; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CHRONIC PAIN; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NECK PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878748315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065378     Document Type: Article

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