Dry needling and exercise for chronic whiplash - a randomised controlled trial
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Dry needling and exercise for chronic whiplash - a randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND Chronic whiplash is a common and costly problem. Sensory hypersensitivity is a feature of chronic whiplash that is associated with poor responsiveness to physical treatments such as exercise. Modalities such as dry-needling have shown some capacity to modulate sensory hypersensitivity, suggesting that when combined with advice and exercise, such an approach may be more effective in t...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1471-2474
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-10-160