Research article

Development of a taxonomy to describe massage treatments for musculoskeletal pain

Karen J Sherman^1,²^*^†, Marian W Dixon³^†, Diana Thompson⁴ and Daniel C Cherkin^1,⁵

¹ Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA

² Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

³ Private Practice, Portland, Oregon 97214, USA

⁴ Private Practice, Seattle, Washington 98112, USA

⁵ Departments of Family Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2006, 6:24 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-6-24

Published: 23 June 2006

Additional File 1:

Massage therapy techniques. A list of the 36 distinct techniques that form the third level of our taxonomy.

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