Acupuncture for the prevention of tension-type headache

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Linde, Klaus ^a   Allais, Gianni ^b   Brinkhaus, Benno ^c   Fei, Yutong ^d   Mehring, Michael ^a   Shin, Byung Cheul ^e   Vickers, Andrew ^f   White, Adrian R ^g  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^e Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE; CHRONIC TENSION HEADACHE; EMBASE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MASSAGE; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REGISTER; REVIEW; RISK; SHAM PROCEDURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENSION HEADACHE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MASSAGE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

EID: 84963813162     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007587.pub2     Document Type: Review

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