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Development of a taxonomy to describe massage treatments for musculoskeletal pain

Karen J Sherman* 1,2 email, Marian W Dixon* 3 email, Diana Thompson4 email and Daniel C Cherkin1,5 email

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

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

3Private Practice, Portland, Oregon 97214, USA

4Private Practice, Seattle, Washington 98112, USA

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

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

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

Published: 23 June 2006

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

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