Osteopathic manipulative treatment and outcomes for pneumonia.
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Osteopathic manipulative treatment for pneumonia
The pneumonias due to infection continue to be a meaningful threat to the health and viability of persons, particularly those in high risk groups: children, the aged and the debilitated. Noll and colleagues provide us with the results of a well-designed and well-executed multi-institutional controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in the tre...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
دوره 101 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001