Development of a taxonomy to describe massage treatments for musculoskeletal pain

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Karen J Sherman¹^,2^* , Marian W Dixon³^* , Diana Thompson⁴ and Daniel C Cherkin¹^,5

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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