| Autor: |
Wilkinson IS; St George's Hospital, Tooting, London SW17, UK. iainwilkinson@doctors.net.uk, Prigmore S, Rayner CF |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Complementary therapies in clinical practice [Complement Ther Clin Pract] 2006 May; Vol. 12 (2), pp. 141-7. Date of Electronic Publication: 2005 Dec 27. |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.ctcp.2005.10.004 |
| Abstrakt: |
It is known that many patients with obstructive pulmonary diseases use a number of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM). There has been a great deal of interest into the CAM recently, with the House of Lords select committee for science and technology's report suggesting randomised-controlled trials are the best means of researching the area. There is very little research into the effects of reflexology specifically on the effects it has on COPD. As such a randomised-controlled trial was set up to examine the effects of reflexology treatments on COPD. Results were qualitative and quantitative and showed that there are a number of areas of possible benefit for patients with COPD, but a larger scale study with a longer time frame is needed for a full evaluation of these effects. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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