Optical, spectroscopic, and doppler evaluation of "normal" and "abnormal" reflexology areas in lumbar vertebral pathology: A case study

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dalal, Krishna ^a   Elanchezhiyan, D ^a   Maran, V B ^a   Das, Raunak Kumar ^b   Kumar, Piyush ^c   Singh, S P ^c   Murali Krishna, C ^c   Chatterjee, Jyotirmoy ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BONE DENSITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MICROCIRCULATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REFLEXOLOGY; SCIATIC NERVE; SPECTROSCOPY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 85000659429     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/904729     Document Type: Article

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